obsidian23 Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Works great here on a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook 6210D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaholics Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Synaptics please!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stasi Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 will it work for an insprion 5160 notebook with a 5.9 synaptics trackpad on leopard?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightalon Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 I know this is the wrong subforum, but I was wondering if anyone got this working on Leopard. It seems like the beta was fairly functional and just needed different defaults, but I can't even try it as the link on page 4 is down. Could someone PM me with a copy? I would be most grateful as I use some manner of an ALPS Glidepad on my Tosh Tecra M7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duplicity Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I haven't had much time to look into getting tap dragging working correctly with this driver and a synaptics trackpad. However this site has info on what all the different items in the preference file mean. http://www.koders.com/cpp/fidA9C3A7B418903...2546C4DFD8.aspx If I manage to get tap dragging working on my laptop I will post the settings I used here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Mario Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 i know this kext is for tiger, but has anyone tried it on leopard, also is this for any ALPS touchpad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Works fine with Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!!___!! Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Which kexts did you use? Could you repost the links? Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schwamm Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 It works on my Toshiba Satellite notebook, but my settings vary from the suggestions outlined in this thread. It jumps a little, but once you get used to it you can avoid it and overall it works wonderfully. I believe I have an ALPS trackpad so if anyone wants the settings I used let me know. Oh, and I'm using 10.5.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukole Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 i got this driver working on my hp pavillion dv2637tx with alps trackpad, running 10.5.2, install went fine, but my pointer was extremely slow, even with the setting on 100% in keyboard and mouse settings. I spent 4 hours or so playing with the kext settings, then discovered that the synaptics settings in the kext actually control my alps trackpad, and not the alps settings. I definetely have an alps pad, as i downgraded to xp, and had to go hunting for the drivers, including the alps pad, which is listed on the hp site. So i reduced the speedscale setting to 250, and its working very well. I also changed the zacceptstheshhold to 70, which allows me to two-finger scroll in all directions, and also with one finger after i trigger scrolling with two fingers, so its sensitive, but not clumsy. Anyways, i thought this info may help some people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiCHWiTiT Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I installed this driver on a Dell Latitude c640 with a synaptics trackpad under 10.4.9. Initially the trackpad speed was so fast that it was almost unusable and the two-finger touch was so sensitive that I had to barely brush my finger across the trackpad surface in order to get the cursor to move without "locking up". I figured that the settings in the FFScroll preference pane might be able to solve my problem. I fiddled with the settings under the two-finger touch tab. I was able to get the mouse down to a usable speed by lowering the tracking speed in the "normal" mouse and keyboard pane. No matter now I fiddled with the settings in the FFScroll pane was I able to get the cursor to track a comfortable pace or get the two finger scroll to work. Finally I decided to check out the preference file to see if I could edit anymore options manually. (I got this from a post earlier in this thread) The file is located at /Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad.plist When I double clicked the file it opened in Property List Editor. Here are the settings I changed and the values I changed them to to get my trackpad to work properly and to get two-finger scrolling to work. Property: speedScale Value: 1600 The higher the value this is set to the "slower" the cursor moves. I suspect it just changes how osX interprets the trackpad resolution. At a value of 1600 I was able the set the tracking speed in the "normal" mouse and keyboard pane back to the halfway point. Property: tapTolerence Value: 1000 I'm not really sure what this property does, but it eliminated some of the problems I was having with tap clicking Property: horizontalScrollingRate/verticalScrollingRate Value: 70 I set both of these properties to 70 to eliminate some of the "jumping" is was seeing when lifting my fingers after two finger scrolling. The higher you set the values the slower a window will scroll when using two finger scrolling. Property: horizontalScrollingThreshold/verticalScrollingThreshold Value: 9 I found 9 to be a nice compromise between responsiveness and eliminating false positives. Lower values improved the responsiveness when two finger scrolling but tended to increase the false positives when I was only using one finger on the trackpad. Property: zAcceptThreshold Value: 130 Sometimes the trackpad would misinterpret single finger usage as two finger scrolling. This made the cursor seem to lock up. The higher you set this property the harder you have to press on the trackpad to initiate two finger scrolling. I found values lower than 130 to sometimes cause my single finger usage to start scrolling. I also found that values above 130 made it so I had to press really hard with my fingers in order for my two fingers to register as a scrolling attempt. All other values I left at their default levels. If you need to return everything to default just delete the above file and reboot and the file will get recreated with default values. Whenever you make any changes to the ffscroll preferences you need to restart the ffscroll daemon in order for the changes to take effect. This can be accomplished by rebooting or running the following commands in the terminal. > sudo killall -9 FFScrollDaemon > sudo /usr/local/bin/FFScrollDaemon The values I am using worked very well for my laptop and were found through trial and error. Others may find that different values work better. Hopefully this guide will help others find the values that work best for them. The only issue I am still experiencing is double tap clicking and tap dragging. I believe that the doubleTapTolerence property will help that but I still need to experiment. I will post my results to this thread once I find out. Great post, worked well. I have a Syn trackpad and even after changing the ''speedScale'' to the 1600 mentioned, it was still crazy. So right now I am at a whooping 5000 and it finally seems to be normal at the very lowest slider in preferences. All I can say is keep raising and raising that setting until you get it to where you like. BTW-I am running Leopard 10.5.5, so yes it works on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpgmaker Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Wow, this works for my HP dv2423la Synaptic Touchpad! Now every major 'glitch' from osx86 is gone Now to test it out and see if it stands the Linux test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckybam69 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 so i got this to work after some trial an error. my ffscroll prefs was not loading so i found this terminal comand sudo /Library/StartupItems/FFScroll/FFScroll restart that restart ffscroll and now i can adjust the settings from there. but when i restart the settings are not the same. basically until i run that terminal command it does not work is there a way i can make it so the settings will load after a restart? also can some1 tell me how to revert my settings back to default using the textedit manual way. i changed the settings in there when i couldnt get the ffscroll daemon to work but since i can now i would like to revert the plist back to default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattcurtis Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 Hi guys, Patched the apple driver so it now supports the ALPS touchpad that many people reported issues with tapping not working (The one with the outcommented device ID in the ApplePS2ALPSGlidepoint.cpp *update #1* Updated information at http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...=5419&st=0# (post #5) *update #2* There is a version compiled for 10.4.1 a few posts down. *update #3* Edgescrolling is *NOT* working (..the way it's supposed too). Working on a fix when time permits. *update #4* Just skip this and scroll to the last page, thread still small enuf for that Could you give me a link to the post? I can't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larabee Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 my first reply after 2 months watching ... work great on my F8sg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coconup Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Hi guys. Just wanted to pop by and say that I won't be doing any more development on this driver. The source is available on hackint0sh for someone to take over. guys anybody knows where's this source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennydied23 Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Anyone with an Acer Aspire 3680 (or close) know how to install this properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego_OSX Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hi to all, I'm wondering if this thread is still active and if there's someone here who can provide a little insight into getting this kext to work with my ALPS touchpad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max.1974 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 TKS A LOT MAN!!!! WORK FINE WITH SNOW LEOPARD!!! 10.6.2...JUST IT!!! TKS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 if you can't find it anymore, linked in this post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...928&st=280# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingkira Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Would you mind re-editing the first post so there's a listing of which files are for what versions of OS X, and what versions of the kext they are? D: wheres the download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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