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M17X Touch Pad

post #1 of 11
11/25/09 at 10:22am
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I just received my M17X! I love it. One feature that I miss from my XPS Gen2 is the touchpad feature which allowed a right to left "swipe" to back page. Please tell me if there is a way to program the feature into the touchpad of the M17X or if there is a keyboard possibility for the back function.
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post #2 of 11
11/25/09 at 11:36am
it's a gaming notebook, and alienware/dell probably thought it was a waste of money to install that feature as stock.

You can download an updated driver to program it yourself though.
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post #3 of 11
11/25/09 at 6:56pm
Is it just me or does the touchpad SUCK on this laptop? It's choppy and so damn difficult to use.
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post #4 of 11
12/3/09 at 5:32pm
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Originally Posted by Clens View Post
Is it just me or does the touchpad SUCK on this laptop? It's choppy and so damn difficult to use.
its not just you. Terrible performance on the touchpad, I am just glad it gets disabled when you ahve an external mouse plugged in...
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post #5 of 11
12/3/09 at 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by Clens View Post
Is it just me or does the touchpad SUCK on this laptop? It's choppy and so damn difficult to use.
It definitely isn't the best touchpad Alienware has used.
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post #6 of 11
12/4/09 at 12:36am
It's not the pad ...

It's the driver uninstall it then let windows driver install instead
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post #7 of 11
12/6/09 at 1:47am
Hey does any one else notice the choppy-ness of the cursor when using the touchpad with any of the synaptic drivers the official ones or the modded ones? (using windows 7 x64 on m17x)
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post #8 of 11
12/6/09 at 3:24am
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Originally Posted by balistic2 View Post
Hey does any one else notice the choppy-ness of the cursor when using the touchpad with any of the synaptic drivers the official ones or the modded ones? (using windows 7 x64 on m17x)
Yep, I have from day one (had this m17x for a week now).
I really dislike the touchpad on this system.. so much so I think I will plop the $ down for a portable bluetooth mouse for travel (just dont have time before this flight so will do it next month when I get back)

May try uninstalling the synaptic drivers and see if that helps, just hope the disable mousepad on usb mouse option still works.

D.
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post #9 of 11
12/6/09 at 3:27am
I found that using the Windows default driver was better
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post #10 of 11
12/6/09 at 3:28am
Ya with the T-pad with windows 7 drivers works fine, but i want all the fancy touch/ gesture support from synaptic.
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post #11 of 11
12/6/09 at 4:14pm
This may not be useful but since I stumbled into this fix yesterday here goes:

1710 (4yr old lappie) with an older synaptics pad
Win 7 - installed synaptics driver addon over the windows one.
Was experiencing choppy or no scroll ability.
Fixed by lowering vertical scroll speed to somewhere between lowest setting and one tick up from lowest. You might try playing with this setting and seeing if it helps scroll response.

I realize it may not be perfect, but I was surprised at how much more responsive the touchpad scrolling got. I use both a mouse and touchpad and vary between the two, hence why I was playing with the setting.
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