New Synaptics touchpad with Gesture control

Anyone know something about if dell xps at least that ones sold in 2008 will support those new drivers with gesture control??

I know its a really soon but it says that it already has support for it.. and checking the driver section the drivers there are from last December. Dell support has nothing new neither.


http://lifehacker.com/5057317/synaptics-adds-mac+like-gestures-to-touchpads

http://www.synaptics.com/press/pr_detail.cfm?id=139

All the best Beto

 

how do you find out if you have an alps touchpad or a synaptics touchpad?

 

Go to device manager > mice and other pointing devices > properties > you should right there in the main window > or go to driver tab and u'll see there the company name..

 

The latest up on Dell site is 10.1.2 I downloaded the generic driver off of synaptics site 10.1.8. No problems but did not enable gesture control.

 

http://blog.laptopmag.com/synaptics-announces-new-gestures-coming-to-a-touchpad-near-you

this says early 2009.

 

do some xps m1530s have synaptic touchpads? cause i thought they were all alps which sucks.

 

yea, i thought so too..does that mean that others may have a synaptics touchpad?

 

I have an alps, it stinks...

 

I have synaptic... thats why the interest... all XPSs that i saw has synaptic though... maybe because the form factory of those sold in uk have synaptic instead of alps, well thats my guess.

 

I believe the distribution has been:
Synaptics OR Alps on the 1330, and Alps ONLY on the 1530.

 

I got the synaptics one in my M1330. So does that mean that we can just install a driver if it comes out and it will work? Or are there hardware changes?

 

Either way, you can use Synaptics drivers for both Alps and Synaptics touchpad. Currently on my R61i, I'm using the Dell drivers (NBR Google "M1330 drivers" for these drivers), and IMO is better than the Ultranav drivers IBM/Lenovo provides.

 

I have seen the gestures drivers in the Acer and Asus laptop sections. They say they have synaptics touchpads. Will those drivers work on the 1330 also?

 

interesting... do you remember where did you see that???


i was listening a some news... and i heard that the last Asus EEE PC has gesture capability among multi touch (ala mac book) but i dont know if it uses synaptics drivers.

does anyone hava any info about it?

 

This is the thread about it
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=306768

And this thread shows the drivers and screen shots. haven't read much more into the thread as to its capabilities.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218872

 

Ive installed the software on my dell XPS 1330 vista 64 and its working fine just have a look on this thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218872

Download links (for XP/Vista 32/64-bit):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9n9c6i
http://mihd.net/42vtopk
http://www.zshare.net/download/16723733e5e7459f/


cheers Beto

 

My M133O has a synaptics (at least the synaptics drivers work with it) and I'm able to tap in "zones" (like the upper left corner) to perform pre-determined actions, on mine.

 

yep... pretty normal, with this new driver it can detects 2 and 3 fingers for different actions.

 

o its nothing special. I guess i was expecting actual gestures like 2 finger scrolling, kind of like macs. All i saw in my options was 2 and 3 finger gestures that would do the same as tap zones.

 

Same here. I used a MacBook for a while for work and loved the two finger scrolling. Much more steady than the scroll zones. I thought this was the same, but all I can see is to assign page-up/page-down to the gestures to sort of mimic the effect.

 

I have a Gateway T Series x64. I've installed the recommended drivers but only have the chiral option. I cannot enable pinch or two/three-finger. I've looked everywhere and tried numerous hacks but can't seem to find the right one.....any suggestions?

 

i am using the latest dell driver for the alps, which is what is on all m1530, and i have all the gesture control, and it can be annoying if you are not in the middle of the pad. forward and back, scroll, zoom, all work perfectly, i used the synaptics driver before and it worked, but none of the gesture or scroll worked at all

 

how did you set up gesture control on the alps?

 

when i installed the alps driver referred on post here. the configuration setup had all the options available, whereas none of the previous drivers would allow any configuration at all except reversing the buttons. Now i can do it all.
problem is you have to do all your movement in the middle of the pad otherwise you will go back, or zoom or scroll, etc.
I am getting used to it and really enjoy the new found features.
the driver i am using is not for the 1530, but it is for the studio which has same alps touchpad and it works on x32 and x64.

http://support.us.dell.com/support/...eid=R196853&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=271983

 

screenshot of the touchpad properties