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Anyone use other manufacturer's drivers for the touchpad?

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Thread Starter 
My I9200 has an Alps touchpad, and I have a ten year old Gateway with a Synaptics pad that is about three times more configurable. (...ok, maybe not three times more, but you get the idea.)

Since Alps doesn't offer drivers themselves, like many other laptop hardware companies, I have to assume that Dell takes all the info and repackages it somehow, often crippling the piss out of things (like they did with the Sigmatel sound drivers).

I just wondered if anyone had tried loading the mouse driver package from another company.
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Thread Starter 
...still wondering about this.
post #3 of 5
If your touchpad used Synaptics drivers (whether packaged by Alps or someone else), you can download and use them from www.synaptics.com.

I think 99% of touchpads are Synaptics. You could try it and, if it didn't work, uninstall and reinstall the Alps.

My Compaq touchpad was lousy. The Synaptics package from HP was crap. I just downloaded from Synaptics and had a bunch more options and things worked great.
post #4 of 5
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I have a 9200 with the Alps pad in it.
I might stick a 9400 pad in it.
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Cant hurt to try
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