Two Finger Scrolling and Three Finger Gestures (Should work on ALL HPs with Synaptics Touchpads)

Two finger scrolling now works on the synaptics touchpad of my dv7
I had previously attempted to use modded drivers and other apps (none of which worked), but surprisingly, synaptics seems to have enabled it all by themselves in the latest driver, which is part of scrybe.

More about scrybe: http://www.uscrybe.com/learn.html

Guide:

1. Download the ScrybeSetup.exe file from here (you can enter a junk email): http://www.uscrybe.com/download.php

2. Install the software (Make sure it installs both scrybe and the new driver)
2.1 Restart

3. Go to Control Panel>Mouse>Device Settings (Tab)>Highlight Synaptics Touchpad Vx.x> then click settings

4. Once you have the Touchpad settings windows open, you can change all kinds of settings:

Multifinger Gestures>Two Finger Scrolling (Click the gears next to the name)

Multifinger Gestures>Rotating (Click the gears next to the name)

Multifinger Gestures>Three Finger Press (Click the gears next to the name)

Multifinger Gestures>Three Finger Flick (Click the gears next to the name)

Multifinger Gestures>Scrolling - allows you to disable the normal one finger scrolling

5. After doing this, you can also open scrybe (in the taskbar) and add all kinds of gestures to open apps/websites

I hope this was helpful - I came across this driver by accident but it has been working perfectly so far.

TIP: Non-English Fix by mohameddegheidy: To get text on the configuration window if English is not set as your language, just rename the scrybeus.dll found in install folder to scrybe.dll

 

since I use XP I installed this version from HP which should work with all XP versions (try at your own risk )

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-81336-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=228&product=4099578

I tried 2 different notebooks (both HP, though) with Win XP SP3 Professional and it works even with an older TouchPad hardware (6.1, I think) but not 3 finger wipe with that hardware...

With the newer TouchPad hardware (6.5) all is working

I still use both scrolling versions, though, two finger scrolling not that often at the moment

 

com on Synaptics! i whant two finger right click and smooth two finger scroll. PC will never be better than mac if they keep making touchpads.

 

it works pretty much the same as a mac on mine... are you keeping your fingers roughly one finger width apart?

it works perfectly when i do that

 

Works perfectly on my HP 2510p YAY TWO FINGER SCROLLING!

 

How is the scrolling? Is it very smooth? When scrolling up and down on a webpage, does it jump 5 lines at a time or single lines at a time?

 

you have to try and play with the settings. You can set the scrolling (wheel) one page or 1 to 100 lines in the main parameters. Then you can set the speed, too.

Both parameters (lines and speed) together will be responsible for your scrolling experience (depends a little on hardware (GPU), too, I think)

You can start the scrolling with the two fingers and depending on your settings it will scroll until next touch or stop after the wheel settings and so on...

 

Sotton is correct, but also as a heads up if you are using Google Chrome: the scrolling will be extremely rough since chrome does not have smooth scrolling in the first place

 

thanks for this OP. working on laptop in sig. with Win7Pro (32bit) although it wouldn't work with my synaptics driver. went over to the community page for scrybe and it seems the installer has trouble with detecting 8 and 9 series drivers. So if anyone runs into trouble you can do what I did:
1) extract ScrybeSetup_Version Number.exe installer file (i used 7-zip)
2) edit line 8 in setup.ini from ByPassChecks=0 to ByPassChecks=1
3) run setup.exe
and it will bypass the driver check
Above method is in no way Scrybe recommended, safe method would be to find a more friendly driver, but I'm lazy

although I'm not sure if this is related to above install method but when I went into control panel> mouse> device settings>settings My display driver, NVidia 173 series, crashes and attempts restart, sometimes causing blue screens.

 

does it also happen if you try it in safe mode?

 

no I tried but the mouse settings don't show up in the control panel in safe mode. unless someone knows how to pull those settings up in safe mode.

its odd though because there is no problem while using scrybe its only while using the mouse settings, which is irritating because I would like to re-enable middle click

 

you can also change the settings from regedit:
start>regedit>HKCU>Software>Synaptics <the settings are in the subfolders

 

Too bad that driver doesn't actually update the touchpad firmware... when I boot Linux, I still get only single-touch. The Windows driver must be patching the firmware in memory only.

 

good idea, I didn't even think about that.
I added a DWORD named "HasBothButtonFeature" with value of 1 to HKLM>Software>synaptics> SynTP>default
and now it works, thanks

 

Nope, it's just not turned on. You can google for instructions - here is ubuntu karmic:
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2009/03/multi-touch-for-anyall-synaptics.html

 

wow ive been trying to do that for ages! and it finally works!! (i didnt even know that key existed) YAY MIDDLE CLICK

+rep

 

Very nice, indeed
I just wanted to add this key also, but it was already there
I am using the Dell version of the Synaptics drivers since the generic driver from Synaptics doesn't work well for me (option to disable touchpad if external mouse is present is missing for some reasons).

Michael

 

You are very welcome, can't live without that middle click

 

Actually, I HAVE turned it on.... synclient just never reports more than one finger!

Another thing HP screwed up on this generation of EliteBook laptops: they attached the stick buttons to the PAD device. This makes it impossible to use stick-scrolling without breaking the touchpad middle button.

Now we just need to figure out how the heck Synaptics is updating their firmware on the fly...

 

there is no multi finger in settings , my hardware version is 6.3
dos it because of hardware ?

p.s: its ok

the driver on synaptics is old version, let the scybe download the latest one

 

The driver works, but the control panel is broken. No text on buttons at all. I bet it is because my regional settings are not set to English. Any fix for that?

 

I have the same problem as firsak ^^^^^^
even though everything is working fine

 

I got it working
just rename the scrybeus.dll found in install folder to scrybe.dll
that worked for me

 

cool, nice fix
I'll add it to the OP for anyone else that needs it

EDIT: OP updated

 

Arg. Too bad my G50VT's touchpad doesn't allow for multitouch gestures. It just allows for calligraphy gestures that open up webpages/applications and two-finger scrolling. Won't be able to properly test this out until I order and get the Envy 14.

 

well this sounds kinda awesome.

 

^wow i just found this again - bump

 

Hey everyone..New to the forum, but not life..lol

Anyway..Quick question...Is there a way to get the page back/forward in the browser with this?? I have it working on my DV2, with 2 finger scrolling and the 3 finger flick option in the settings, but was wandering about the page options.

thanks

tCp