Synaptics Touch Pad Scrolling Doesn't Work

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hmm, just noticed that that driver says it's an "evaluation copy". hope it doesn't stop working... but for now it's awsome.

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Christos, the link no longer works...may you help? Thanks!
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Unfortunately, I currently do not have a place to upload the touchpad driver. :-(

Is it possible to upload a file at the forum somewhere? (it's around 6.5 MB).
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You could try to email it to me natasha.cornejo[at]gmail dot com
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Hi Natasha,

I just sent you an email with subject "7.10.14.0 synaptics driver ".

Let me know if you have any problems.
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The only attachment that was sent was a 1k text file. :( Could you
try to send it again?
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Unfortunaly, I keep failing emailing this guy. :-(

I've asked Sboulema if they would be willing to keep a copy of the file at http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/.

It looks like a lot of people are having problems with the latest Synaptics touchpad drivers. Unfortunately, it becomes more & more difficult to find old (working) versions of the driver on the web.

I hope somebody out there is willing to give us a hand here. I can't possibly be expected to be emailing people 6.5 MB emails till Synaptics fixes their driver... ;-)
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Thanks for trying Christos...I really REALLY appreciate your intention. Hopefully, someone (MOZILLA!) can figure this out because their options just aren't working sometimes. Unless I am doing something wrong :(

Natasha ;)
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Not ready to give up just yet! :-)

Try to do a google search with "Synaptics", "touchapd", "7.10". I think 7.10.xxx.yyy is the latest series that works with Mozilla/Firefox.

I found this page:
http://www.qditech.com.au/downloads.php

That lists this driver:

http://www.qditech.com.au/files/8050d/touchpad.zip

(I haven't tried it though! Careful when testing it!)

Good luck!
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Sboulema has put a copy of the driver at Extensions Mirror:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=2892

Thanks everybody!
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Thank you christos :)
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Christos, does that driver enable horizontal scrolling, too? I downloaded the latest driver for my machine from Dell, but it only enabled vertical scrolling. Anyone know how to get horizontal scroll to work, too?
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beah wrote:Christos, does that driver enable horizontal scrolling, too?


Dunno, never tried horizontal scrolling...

beah wrote:I downloaded the latest driver for my machine from Dell, but it only enabled vertical scrolling.


This is not really the latest driver (assuming you are talking about 7.10.14), but the latest *working* driver as far as Mozilla goes. ;-)
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Works just fine in Linux. Of course my laptop is a couple of years old Dell.
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UH how does one scroll using the Touchpad? Mine is a Dell Latitude 600 has 4 buttons and the pad. I pretty much always use a mouse.

So how do you scroll with the pad?
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