E6500 Touchpad no response after wakeup

Hi everyone

I have installed XP on my Latitude E6500. Baseline is the ALPS Touchpad sucks, it is unprecise, slow and sometimes hangs. The worst I have ever experienced. I even had it replaced by Dell hoping to receive a newer Hardware revision but just got the same pos again so nothing changed.

What really annoys me is that when I wakeup my PC from Standby or Hibernation the Touchpad does not respond for about 20 of seconds so I have to wait.

Of course I have the latest driver 7.2.101.216 from Dell installed.

Does anyone have the same issue and was able to resolve it?

thanx for any hints.

 

i think that can be resolved by upgrading to vista

 

I have zero issues with the same Alps touchpad in my E6400 (which is running XP).

I wonder whether the cause is either power management, interaction with an external mouse or something in the BIOS.

Do you have your touchpad set to be disabled if an external mouse is present? If yes, deselect that option.

John

 

Upgrading to Vista is not an option.

The setting for external mouse disabling is not active so this cannot be the cause. Anyone else have any ideas??