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    Multitouch with Toshiba Portégé R500 (Alps Touchpad)

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by P-A-L-A-D-I-N, Sep 22, 2009.

  1. P-A-L-A-D-I-N

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    Hello,

    I own a Toshiba Portégé R500 with Alps Touchpad and I would like to use multitouch and gestures on it, like e.g. two-finger-zoom or rotate .

    I have been looking around and found some explanations (mostly on notebookreview.com) how to do this but unfortunately all of them had been written for Dell notebooks, Linux users and so on - but none of them for owners of a Toshiba notebook. :(

    Can somebody help me with a "how to", a good link or whatever??
    Thanks a lot in advance.
     
    P-A-L-A-D-I-N, Sep 22, 2009
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Not even Toshiba Support direct for documentation?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 6, 2009
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  3. P-A-L-A-D-I-N

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    I am not sure if I got you right, but if you asked about Toshiba's support, I can give you a 'no'. :(
    Toshiba does not support anything like that officially. :( I do not know why (especially since it seems to be possible from the technical point of view), but it seems to be their policy not to improve their existing / already released products...
    So the only hope is to find some guys in the net who know more about such things (as these Dell owners or Linux users from this forum that I already mentioned).
     
    P-A-L-A-D-I-N, Oct 9, 2009
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    moral hazard, Oct 11, 2009
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  5. P-A-L-A-D-I-N

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    Hmm, seems to be a bit better than the gesture functions of the original Toshiba driver. Thanks for telling me about it. :)

    The Toshiba R500 driver also supports left-right-scrolling, up-down-scrolling, forward/back and, in addition, also some special features like program starts from the corners of the touchpad (which is a bit tricky sometimes). But no zoom function.

    It is nice that Dell offers zoom from the left side of the touchpad and also circle scrolling. But they do not offer a real multitouch driver, do they?
     
    P-A-L-A-D-I-N, Oct 11, 2009
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  6. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I think the dell studio 14z has mutitouch.

    I went to the dell driver download page but couldn't find drivers for the studio 14z. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place.

    If you can find the studio 14z touchpad driver then you may get multitouch.

    Please let me know if you find it, I'm interested in this also :)
     
    moral hazard, Oct 11, 2009
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