Setup Elantech touchpad

This is my 1st post, so first of all I want to say hi to everyone, I've been reading you from quite a long time and now I've decided to register to share anything I can to help.

I bought a Samsung Series 3 np370r5e 2 weeks ago, as the last laptop i had (asus x59sl) burnt. In general terms, I'm impressed with this laptop but I still need some things that my ASUS had.

For example, it had a Synaptics touchpad that I could setup, so whenever I wanted to play/pause the media player, I just had to swipe 3 fingers up in it. Now, with this touchpad, I can't get any option for that although It seems I could change something in the registry to make it work.

Do you have any idea what could I change to setup these gestures? I saw that other laptops use the same touchpad, and have newer drivers available, could I install these drivers in my Samsung?

Thanks in advance.

 

A newer Elantech driver should work. Give it a try. You can always uninstall it.

John

 

Thanks for your help, John.

I've just tried what I think it's the newest driver (11.7.8.5) and I can't see any changes.
I think I only have to change the value "ThreeFingerMoveLeft_func" in the registry; now it says "768" and swiping left with 3 fingers works like the "back button". Would be really useful having a list of values and their functions, i think there has to be any setting to play/pause the media player. Do you know where I could find it? Other options are, trying all the values one by one, or asking the driver developer (which one is it? Samsung? Elantech?) for it.

 

There is also an unofficial control panel called ETDAniConf, which contains a lot more features to configure gestures. Check the post linked below for how to get it -- if it isn't already installed with your driver. It's in a thread containing a lot more touchpad discussion which may be useful to you.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sam...-trackpad-discussion-only-26.html#post9127678

 

I can't see any options to change the 3-finger swipe settings and Google doesn't find any documented options. However, there is a little hope in the installer file ETD.inf:

Note that the values in this file are not numbers but system variables such as %SWIPE_PAGE_UP%

I can't find any documentation about these variables but you may want to try creating your own registry entry using PAUSE instead of SWIPE_PAGE_UP (or whichever gesture you want to change) and see if anything changes in the registry when you load it. You may need to reboot to check if any change carries through to a modified response to the gesture. Note also that there are several groups of 3-finger entries in the .inf file.

John

 

Oh god, thank you very very much. Both of you pointed me in the right direction. I'll test it in a few days and i'll let you know how it's working. Thank you very much.