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    Touchpad scrolling on S series

    Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by lossfound, Jan 23, 2006.

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    lossfound Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all. I just got my new S6240 and I hate hate hate the touchpad. I'm getting used to it, but it feels weird, shaky, and just generally vastly inferior to the one in the Averatec 3250 that the 6240 is replacing.

    Touch issues aside, which I may eventually get used to, the old Averatec uses a smooth Synaptics touchpad while Fujitsu apparently uses Alps in the S-series and may be the last laptop mfr to do so. Years ago, the Alps drivers ceased development and were subsumed whole by Microsoft, whose idea of touchpad scrolling as packaged with XP is absolutely pathetic. The Synaptics driver has a lovely "velocity sensitive" scroll which follows your finger-- it moves more quickly as you do. And if you leave your finger in place on the scroll zone, the scrolling stops and waits for you.

    I want the same thing for my Fujitsu, but Microsoft's idea of touchpad scrolling is an unusable joke by comparison. I've been Googling like crazy but I can't find an alternative, probably because this has been included with most touchpads and/or in Windows for some time. Does anyone offer an alternative scroll enabling utility for touchpads? Are any of you using it with your uh Fujitsi? :)

    Thanks in advance.
     
    lossfound, Jan 23, 2006
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