Lenovo releases Windows 8 drivers (IdeaPad U300s)

I've just noticed that Lenovo has released a couple of Windows 8 drivers for their IdeaPad line.

There's a Windows 8 touchpad driver for the U300s which I'm especially curious about. Has anyone tried those yet with a Windows 8 install and can post impressions on how the indirect touch thing (bringing up Charms, switching apps etc.) actually works?

Haven't checked for other models, at least the U300s has a full set of drivers available:

Touchpad
WLan & Bluetooth (Cybertan, Liteon)
WLan & Bluetooth (Intel)
SandyBridge HD Graphics
Intel Chipset Driver
Conexant Audio Driver
Intel MEI
Intel Rapid Storage
Realtek LAN Driver
Lenovo Energy Management
UVC Camera Driver (Bison)

 

Great find, I've been thinking about upgrading mine... although I may keep it on Win7 and think about buying the Lenovo Yoga; I hear they're releasing an RT version, maybe as cheap as $400!

My U300s just died btw, about 10 mins ago, I posted a new thread for it.

Thanks for finding and posting the Win8 info for U300s!!

 

Thanks for the Info. I've tested with those drivers on my u300s. So far so good.
But, as always, the cypress touchpad is quite annoying.
The two finger scroll is terrible in the metro UI, so I installed Dell xps 13 driver from here .
The windows 8 driver(v2.5.0.52) from Dell is much smoother than Lenovo's.

The indirect touch by swiping sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't.
Bringing the cursor to the screen corner is better than swiping from the edge.

 

Thanks for the feedback - has anyone with a Synaptics pad already tried it though?

 

I have the Synaptics touchpad but the Windows 8 Lenovo update installed the Cypress driver which rendered the touchpad dead. I uninstalled and it was back to normal, but without PalmCheck it is a pain to use.

Just to make sure I wasn't going crazy I went back to Windows 7 (I'm booting to Windows 8 via .VHD just to check it out right now) and confirmed I have Synaptics. Booted back to Windows 8 and found in Device Manager (or "Devices" as it's now called) has two mouse devices, an HID-compatible device that has HWIDs indicating it is a Cypress device, and a PS/2 Compatible device that is Synaptics. Here is what I did to install:

1. Run the Windows 8 driver setup file 0gt102w8.exe
2. When the install wizard screen comes up (indicating Cypress), go to Devices, right-click the PS/2 Compatible device, and choose Update Driver
3. Point to the Synaptics install folder that the setup file created. In my case it was C:\Drivers\TouchPad Driver (Synaptics, Cypress)\Synaptics\WinWDF\x64
4. After the driver installs, restart

Boom! You can now open the mouse applet in Control Panel to turn on Palm Check or whatever. There is also a Cypress tab (?!)... I disabled everything just for grins with no ill effects. I find that the touchpad still freezes randomly (a known problem in Win7 too). A quick sleep-restart cycle brings it back.

 

Hi Hymie,
I tried your approach to get the synaptics drivers but when I ran the drier setup fileI don't see the subfolders for synaptics\winwdf\x64 the directory stays unchanged all there is in the folder is a setup.exe file:/

Any tips?

Andrew

 

What about the graphics driver with switchable graphics feature???