The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Touchpad reverts to draglock after restart/sleep?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by lateinningmagic, Aug 19, 2008.

  1. lateinningmagic

    lateinningmagic Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hey, just got my 1530 yesterday and after playing around with it a while I decided that draglock isn't for me so I disabled it. I've done some restarts since then and put it to sleep. I'm not sure when the draglock came back, but when i woke it up this morning the draglock was enabled again.

    P.S. the touchpad is pretty bad in general. Tap click is weird you can't move the mouse horizontally till the top half of the touchpad.
     
    lateinningmagic, Aug 19, 2008
    #1
  2. lateinningmagic

    lateinningmagic Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I did a search and it seems that you're able to use other drivers such as Alps on this touchpad? Is this safe to do/easy to fix?
     
    lateinningmagic, Aug 19, 2008
    #2
  3. MystiklMayhem

    MystiklMayhem Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    207
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    MystiklMayhem, Aug 19, 2008
    #3
  4. lateinningmagic

    lateinningmagic Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I do care about scrolling. In fact I installed new drivers from a thread so I could have scrolling in firefox. Thanks anyway.
     
    lateinningmagic, Aug 19, 2008
    #4
  5. MystiklMayhem

    MystiklMayhem Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    207
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    do you still have the link? i would like to dl that driver since firefox is my primary web browser :]
     
    MystiklMayhem, Aug 19, 2008
    #5
  6. lateinningmagic

    lateinningmagic Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    lateinningmagic, Aug 19, 2008
    #6
  7. markdr

    markdr Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Sorry for the bump, but any solution to this problem? This has happened to me a few times with my Studio 15.
     
    markdr, Sep 7, 2008
    #7
  8. jotpilot

    jotpilot Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    15
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Similar problem here - only my settings for speed get returned to default after reboot - need a solution too!
     
    jotpilot, Sep 20, 2008
    #8
  9. plsdonotbug

    plsdonotbug Guest

    Reputations:
    0
    Likewise - this apparently affects all Synaptics touch-pads. Is there a solution?
     
    plsdonotbug, Sep 26, 2008
    #9
  10. plsdonotbug

    plsdonotbug Guest

    Reputations:
    0
    It appears my Dell touch pad is actually "Alps" not Synaptics - so apparently it affects both. Perhaps it's an OS / driver problem?
     
    plsdonotbug, Sep 29, 2008
    #10