1530 Touchpad Settings

I recently got my 1530 that is going to replace my e1505. I noticed that the 1530 has a Alps touchpad instead of a Synaptics that is on the 1505. There's a setting I really miss called "tap and drag" that doesn't seem to be available under any of the touchpad settings on the 1530 (it's not drag lock). In case you don't know what I'm talking about, you can tap on sidebar in IE and just hold your finger on the pad and the page scrolls down really fast rather than having to continually tap to get to the bottom of the page.

Maybe I'm just missing a setting on the 1530, hopefully someone can help!

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=204956

Try using the Fujitsu Alps drivers for the 17" notebook. Model N-something.

 

Thanks! I'll try it.

 

I thought I would try to make this really clear for all the frustrated 1530 users out there, since it helped me.

I went to http://support.fujitsupc.com/CS/Portal/support.do?srch=DOWNLOADS
and then I used the three drop down boxes at the top to choose:
Select Product - Notebook PC
Select Series - N Series
Select Model - N6460 (N6410 and N6420 also work)

In the list of downloads (downloads tab) under the section "Windows Vista Compatible Drivers" I clicked on the driver named "Pointing." That driver is listed as version 7.0.401.2.

When I clicked on the word "Pointing," I then accepted the license agreement and the file began to download.

Once downloaded, I set a system restore point in Vista and then I uninstalled the Alps touchpad driver that came with my XPS M1530. Once uninstalled I used the file I downloaded to install the driver from Fujitsu.

Now I happily have the basic functionality (as seen in the attached screenshot) that I had enjoyed on my old Dell Inspiron m600. When I first got the 1530 I was worried I would have to send it back since it was lacking those Back/Forward gestures that I use often, every day.

I have been using it for 3 months now without issue. (Well, except for that issue everyone has with the alps drivers not sending the back/forward commands to firefox.)

I hope this is helpful.

 

You know you can access the full feature set of the Alps software without changing from the Dell supplied touchpad driver right?

There is a registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Alps\APoint called UseCustomGUI. By default it is set to 1. If you change it to 0, you'll find the Control Panel Mouse window will have all the tabs available including the gesture settings, scroll settings, orientation etc.

Give it a go. No reboot required

 

nice! rep to u for that!

 

You can download the full Alps driver from Dell Precision Mobile workstation M65 that will give you full functionality (for an Alps anyway), all OS versions are available including XP and Vista X64. Link: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WV64&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=LATITUDE+PRECISION+M65&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en

What is it with Dell keep changing between Synaptics and Alps?!!! The Synaptics pad is so much more responsive and offers so much more customizations with the driver. Every Dell laptop I've owned in the past 2 years alternated between Synaptics and Alps - Latitude D620/D820/D410/D420 all Alps, then I was in heaven with the Synaptics with the XPS M1210, back to Alps with a Vostro 1400, back to Synaptics with XPS M1330. Then guess what, BACK to ALPS with the XPS M1530 I just got!!!

I probably would have bought the XPS M1530 regardless, but if I knew it has the ALPS I would have hesitated to make this switch. Oh well, gotta live with the Alps pad again, but I need the desktop space of the WUXGA screen.

Dell: in case you're reading this, no one likes the Alps pad!

SpotMe: good tip on that with the Dell driver!