Dell Precision 5510, Synaptics Touchpad, and advanced settings

Hello,
I've just put Windows 10 on my Precision 5510, and installed drivers, etc. It seems the advanced Synaptics touchpad settings to configure gestures aren't available, and only basic Windows 10 gestures are working. Has anybody managed to get to the advanced Synaptics settings?

 

I'm pretty certain that the new Dell Mobile Precisions use ALPS touchpads now and require using an ALPS touchpad driver instead of synaptics.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us...710-workstation&languageCode=EN&categoryId=IN

I'm not absolutely certain though because the 5510 isn't listed in the compatible list. But the other Precisions are. Try it and see if that works better.

 

The M3800 and 5510 use Synaptics instead of ALPS (being based on the XPS 15).

 

FWIW, those are available in the Windows 7 version.

 

I am in a similar situation except mine came shipped with Windows 10 and according to Device manager, i have the generic mouse drivers installed. Did you succeed by forcing the ALPS or Synaptics drivers?

Since you have the trackpad config tool installed with your windows 7 system, would you kindly post screenshot of the "Mice and other pointing devices" in Device manager please? Here is mine to compare:

 

Good news Ashic!

To confirm, we have the synaptic touch-pad for our 5510 (confirmed by dell_ManoG). I tried the drivers from Synaptic website and it didn't work. I managed to locate the Dell drivers from the XPS15 Support section>>Dell Command | Deploy Precision Windows 8.1 Driver Pack. It appears for Windows 8.1 only....doesn't exist for windows 10 OS selection. I have extracted just the Dell touch-pad drivers and can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzcTVyk2yhq1RU9ONFJvSnVhZEU/view?usp=sharing

The Setup.exe won't run as it complains OS incompatibility. Double click on InstNT, it will install the drivers silently and your track-pad will stop to work. Using the keyboard, reboot your laptop and the track-pad should work fine. To confirm it took the Dell touchpad drivers, goto Device Manager>>Mice & pointing devices....it should read as Dell Touchpad. I still have one of the Dell Touchpad(PS2) in error state but the trackpad and Dell config utility(found in the system tray) works fine.

 

Dell should pay YOU for support.

 

Thanks Mike F! I haven't tried the Win 10 drivers on this site, but this may be helpful as well:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/dell-touchpad-drivers/comment-page-1/

Even with the synaptic drivers, I still don't get the advanced trackpad settings. Did it show up for anyone?

 

I'm very pleased with the Windows 7 Synaptics Gesture Suite
SGS-version: SGS 15.3
Driverversion: 19.0.15.2 09Jul15
Firmware version: 8.2

I see the 19.0.15.2 Windows 10 64 Bit
http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER03188715M/1/Input_Driver_756GC_WN64_19.0.15.2_A00.EXE

Doesn't it work exactly the same way?

 

Just an update, I've upgrade to Windows 10 and I've completely lost the Synaptics Gesture Suite. The driver above didn't work either - so a big thanks for Mike F for the work around.
Gesture Suite up'n'running again
Also the start-drag-delay has disappeared.

Does anyone know if you can keep acceleration on for the mousepad but of for a connected mouse?