Synaptics Trackpad in VAIO Z12 - 3 finger swipe not working

Hey all,

Interesting problem with multi-touch gestures on my Sony Z...

According to some other threads, the Z12 should have shipped with the latest synaptics drivers with multitouch. However, I could not get 2 finger scrolling to work. I could go back and forward with multi-touch, but it seemed to work with 2 fingers when it should have been 3.

So I downloaded the latest synaptics driver (14.0.3), and now the 2 finger scrolling works how it should. But my back/forward function disappeared! Also gained pinch to zoom.

Anyone know what's going on? Has anybody gotten 3 finger back/forward swiping to work on their Z?

Thanks in advance...

 

hmm
in this case you should try laptopvideo2go forums they have the latest driver available, i like 14.0.3 a lot that i don't bother to try newer driver

 

Thanks Andrew.

I was able to get everything working. One problem is that the synaptics driver does not support Google Chrome, which is what I use. There are some registry entries that you have to put in to enable multi-touch for Chrome. Here is a link for the file, just double-click on it, it will add to the registry, then reboot, and gestures in Chrome should work fine.

The other thing though is that the three finger flick is quite finicky, not as good as on Macs. I've found that once you make contact with three fingers on the touchpad, you HAVE to keep your fingers absolutely static as you translate them left or right. If you vary the distance between any two fingers as you swipe, synaptics thinks you are doing a pinch to zoom and get confused. You'd think that establishing 3 points of contact would preclude any two finger gestures, but this seems not to be the case.

Anybody have a similar experience or have ideas to improve it?

 

Thanks for the .reg file; I wanted to use three-finger flicks too, but I couldn't since Chrome is my browser of choice.