Guest Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 I am currently trying out Acidanthera's VoodooPS2 which includes support for Magic Trackpad 2 emulation on a standard PS/2 trackpad. I am mainly trying this out because the new features seem very appealing, such as Force Touch emulation, three finger tap, rotation etc. When I installed it on my HP EliteBook 8470p (as a replacement for RehabMan's VoodooPS2Controller), the trackpad had a few serious issues: Non-functioning two finger gestures Very sensitive mouse, must reduce speed of trackpad to lowest setting and even then it is still fast Physical click button does not work Has anyone else had issues with the new VoodooPS2 on their HP devices? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/340163-acidanthera-voodoo-ps2/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
userxp Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 On 9/5/2019 at 5:50 AM, natster101 said: I am currently trying out Acidanthera's VoodooPS2 which includes support for Magic Trackpad 2 emulation on a standard PS/2 trackpad. I am mainly trying this out because the new features seem very appealing, such as Force Touch emulation, three finger tap, rotation etc. When I installed it on my HP EliteBook 8470p (as a replacement for RehabMan's VoodooPS2Controller), the trackpad had a few serious issues: Non-functioning two finger gestures Very sensitive mouse, must reduce speed of trackpad to lowest setting and even then it is still fast Physical click button does not work Has anyone else had issues with the new VoodooPS2 on their HP devices? Yes. Two finger gestures not working on my HP laptop in signature. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/340163-acidanthera-voodoo-ps2/#findComment-2693943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBloke Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) I am trying the acidanthera VoodooPS2 on my HP Probook 640 and I have all these same issues: two finger gestures not working, physical buttons don't work. Therefore I have no way to right-click or scroll up/down. Also I can't find a way to click and drag. However, three finger gestures do work OK. I am a bit confused about this, because it seems to me that if three finger gestures work, then so should two finger ones? So maybe it's some sort of configuration issue? But I can find almost no help regarding the acidanthera VoodooPS2 driver - I thought there would be an official forum thread, but I can't find one? I guess I will have to go back to the RehabMan version I was using before, which allowed me to scroll up/down and use physical buttons, but three-finger gestures did not work. Another thing I don't understand is whether there should be a Preferences Pane available for changing settings? In researching VoodooPS2 I keep finding people talking about changing settings in the Preferences Pane. I am not sure if they are talking about the normal Apple Trackpad PrefPane, which of course I have, or something new and specific to VoodooPS2? EDIT: I have gone back to the RehabMan VoodooPS2, and realised that it does detect three finger gestures, it's just that it doesn't automatically map them to trackpad gestures. It sends keyboard commands. For example, three-finger-swipe up/down sends Cmd + Option + Up/Down, and three-finger-swipe left/right sends Option + Left/Right. So I have used BetterTouchTool (which I already used) to map these to the same actions that I would normally get on my Magic Trackpad 2: However I can't get two-finger-swipe left/right to work as browser back/forward. It seems VoodooPS2 does not send keyboard codes for these gestures, but instead maps them to scroll wheel left/right (a pretty useless gesture 95% of the time, IMHO). So I need to investigate to see if this can be changed. Edited October 20, 2019 by TheBloke Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/340163-acidanthera-voodoo-ps2/#findComment-2694368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron-phil Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 I have the same problem. My HP Elitebook 840G5 is not detecting twi finger gestures. So no scrolling or secondary click. With rehabmans old version teo fingers work but not three... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/340163-acidanthera-voodoo-ps2/#findComment-2696156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soumaxetuirk Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 On 10/20/2019 at 8:05 PM, TheBloke said: I am trying the acidanthera VoodooPS2 on my HP Probook 640 and I have all these same issues: two finger gestures not working, physical buttons don't work. Therefore I have no way to right-click or scroll up/down. Also I can't find a way to click and drag. However, three finger gestures do work OK. I am a bit confused about this, because it seems to me that if three finger gestures work, then so should two finger ones? So maybe it's some sort of configuration issue? But I can find almost no help regarding the acidanthera VoodooPS2 driver - I thought there would be an official forum thread, but I can't find one? I guess I will have to go back to the RehabMan version I was using before, which allowed me to scroll up/down and use physical buttons, but three-finger gestures did not work. Another thing I don't understand is whether there should be a Preferences Pane available for changing settings? In researching VoodooPS2 I keep finding people talking about changing settings in the Preferences Pane. I am not sure if they are talking about the normal Apple Trackpad PrefPane, which of course I have, or something new and specific to VoodooPS2? EDIT: I have gone back to the RehabMan VoodooPS2, and realised that it does detect three finger gestures, it's just that it doesn't automatically map them to trackpad gestures. It sends keyboard commands. For example, three-finger-swipe up/down sends Cmd + Option + Up/Down, and three-finger-swipe left/right sends Option + Left/Right. So I have used BetterTouchTool (which I already used) to map these to the same actions that I would normally get on my Magic Trackpad 2: However I can't get two-finger-swipe left/right to work as browser back/forward. It seems VoodooPS2 does not send keyboard codes for these gestures, but instead maps them to scroll wheel left/right (a pretty useless gesture 95% of the time, IMHO). So I need to investigate to see if this can be changed. HI, I am using Lenovo Idealpad 310 with Synaptic Touchpad. I am having the exact same issue.Single tap and three fingers gesture are working but two finger is never detected. Rehabmans's VoodooPS2 hasn't been updated for year now and Acidanthera's VoodooPS2 is promising with it's native gesture feature.Hoping to see more device support in future. There is few discussion here, I couldn't find anything useful. https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aproject%3Aps2 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/340163-acidanthera-voodoo-ps2/#findComment-2696460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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