MeDevil Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Hey guys... alps trackpad will never work with two-finger scrolling... this is mainly because hw doesn't seems to have multi-finger detection! I hope the alps corp. will deny this fact by replying to my email... Regards, Domenico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bQvleztar Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Hi, this i kinda strange. When i replace ApplePS2Trackpad.kext with your modified one, after reboot it sais as usual that it is not installed probertly. (However) Prefs - Keyboard and Mouse. detects a Mouse and not at Trackpad. and actually the scrolling in right side of the trackpad works. When i fix the permissions on ApplePS2Trackpad.kext, i get the "Trackpad" tap again in "Keyboard and Mouse", but the "2 finger scrolling" options is gone. so i cant enable it? Anyone knows how to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homer007 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 kinda same problem as me, when i install the kext, fix permissions on it and restart i get no two finger scrolling option!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bQvleztar Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Also the Trackpad Options: Ignore accidental trackpad inputs, doesnt work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aszwet1 Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 i have a d600 as well... i tried installing using that package like it said... no go on that. now when i start it up i get an error saying the appleps2trackpad.kext is installed improperly can't be used... i tried to do what you said, with the repair permissions, and the delete extensions.mkext... then i tried using yours instead of mine... didn't do anything different... any ideas? i forgot to make a backup of my original ps2 controller thing... is there any way to get one from the internet or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dense Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Trackpad now works for me. However vertical scrolling does not work. What I am noticing is that its trapping the vertical scroll when I try to use it (the mouse pointer does not move) but the windows doesn't scroll (testing using Safari). I know the driver is being used because I now get a Trackpad option in the Keyboard and Mouse preferences and also tapping now works too. Just a quick update... If I move the Scrolling Speed slider, it starts working. So the default values must be messed up. However even on the slowest scrolling speed its far too sensitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob2600 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Hi I was wondering if anyone was successful getting this type of functionality on a Synaptics touchpad with the ACPIPS2Nub drivers used for vanilla kernels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dense Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Some more findings. If you sleep the system and wake it up, the settings are lost. Also reboot has issues remembering the settings too. Vertical scrolling is just plain weird. No other way to describe it, but its just not working well. I've created a diff patch against ApplePSTrackpad-9 and have an automated process for applying this diff. I can do lot of source based tests very quickly now so if you need any assistance in fixing these problems I am happy to help. With a bit of tweaking I am sure you'll have all these issues fixed. Very much appreciate the work you put into this (after creating a concise diff file I had a good chance to look through the code and its more than just little tweaks). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majorix Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 The settings for tapping are lost after a reboot/hibernation. You have to set it back up every time and it is plain annoying. The mouse sometimes disappears at a certain position, and then spawns from a different location. Vertical scrolling 'works', but not in the way we would want it to. It scrolls way too fast even in the slowest settings, it doesn't scroll as soon as you try to scroll and so on. Anybody found a fix for any of these? Maybe we need another, solid kext? *looks shamelessly at the developers around* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I'm sorry to report similar or worse results on my Inspiron 1525 (ALPS). You can play around with the options getting a semi-useful vertical scroll, but after hours of changing settings, my tapping fingers are worn out. Quite frankly, I'm happy with the tap-to-click function I had previously. Maybe smooth scrolling is better left to the real deal for now since there are so many touchpad models and configurations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtf69wtf Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 hello my FFScroll does not load when i go to system preferences i click on it but dose not load it says "Loading FFScroll..." at the top of the window but it never loads. how can i fix this? thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ BlurKing Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 same problem here... says Loading FFscroll.... but never loads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackal217 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 same problem here also anyone mind giving a straight-up solution to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeto Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 For those who can't get the FFScroll Prefpane to load, try looking for the "com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad" plist under /Library/Preferences/. Then copy that file to ~/Library/Preferences (aka /Users/<your_username>/Library/Preferences/). I got this from Ranova's thread here. Apparently, FFScroll won't load unless that plist file exists in both Library/Preferences directory on the root of the system and on the user's root. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ BlurKing Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 I managed to come up with an easier way to open the FFScroll preference pane in Leopard... 1. Open Terminal 2. Type "FFScrollDaemon" without the quotes There! You should be able to open FFScroll preference pane in Leopard without any problems. Gd Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey_@@ Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 It's working here... thanks! One question: how can I update this package with the latest FFScroll??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle G. Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Works! Thanks a lot!! =] -Kyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapguts Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Worked great on a Sony Vaio VVGN-N220E. HUGE thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRDELUNAIII Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Thanks this worked great on my Toshiba Qosmio F55 with iDeneb 10.5.5. I also tried it on Kalyway 10.5.2 and it too worked great on it. Happy New Year and God Bless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliviereijpe Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 ???????!!!!!!!!!!! can anybody tell me how this works? can't understand it, i tried to install and have rebooted, but the speed of the touchpad is so amazing fast,, at the slowest to,, but i can see only the normal mouse and keyboard menu.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icemanzh Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 hi to all. i tryed to install this package, it worked all well i also don't know i to see if 2 finger scroll works since i never heard about.... vertical scroll i had already before with only deleting some lines in info.plist and without installing this package.. i'm happy to help others but i'm just a noob, need also help sometimes :-) i have a sinaptics touchpad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sicofante Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 vertical scroll i had already before with only deleting some lines in info.plist and without installing this package..i'm happy to help others but i'm just a noob, need also help sometimes :-) i have a sinaptics touchpad I also have a Synaptics touchpad here. May I ask you how did you enable vertical scrolling? I just installed iDeneb 10.5.5 in my Acer Aspire 5610 and this is one of the few issues I have to fix. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh the Huge Manatee Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 C776CA (c700) here, and this works great. The only downside... I don't have any way to control my mouse sensitivity! I'd like it a bit faster than it is... Thanks for all the work so far, guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumthrasher109 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 I can't seem to get two-finger scrolling to work, so I'm starting to think that my trackpad isn't capable of multitouch of any sort. If I tap on two different areas of the trackpad at two different times, the cursor will pretty much just jump around. The same thing will pretty much happen when I try to scroll with 2 fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unr3a1r00t Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 No matter what I do, I am unable to load FFscroll. Whether it be through system preferences or through terminal. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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