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    Vista x64 Touchpad Driver

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by blull, Jun 13, 2007.

  1. blull

    blull Notebook Geek

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    I have actually managed to get everything working perfectly under vista except my touchpad (scroll, etc) and the camera. I don't care about the camera personally, but the touchpad is kind of a pain. Anyone have a clue where to find some working vista x64 touchpad drivers that will work with my new SR MBP?

    P.S. I know someone is gonna mention how I should stick with 32 bit, but I have my reasons! So don't try and talk me out of it! :p
     
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    blull Notebook Geek

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    No luck so far, been working at it for 3 hours ;p I have managed to extract the touchpad driver from bootcamp 1.3, however I can't get it to force install, just says to be sure I am using a 64-bit driver. One thing I don't understand, some 32-bit drivers work fine in vista 64, is there anything special that you can do to force a 32 bit driver to work with x64? I am so close yet so far ;p
     
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    nikhsub1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    To disable the annoying 64bit mandatory driver signing:

    Start > Run > Type 'CMD'

    Type the below (or copy/paste) in the dos prompt. Reboot. Done.

    bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

    Where would I find windows drivers for the macbook pro?
     
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    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    They come in Bootcamp's package. You might have to extract them from the exe.
     
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    I set that before installing any drivers. I think that the touch pad was not written with ANY compatibility for Vista x64. I'm 99% sure of that now after spending many hours trying to fix the last thing that *really* annoyed me with driver support. Well that and, all the laptopvideo2go drivers for x64 do not support brightness adjustments via any of the tools or utilities I have. Was the same problem with my old A8JP and brightness adjustment. Something about converting desktop drivers I guess. Will have to wait for a x64 mobility driver I guess to get that functionality.
     
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