15r touchpad driving me crazy

Is anyone else having trouble with the touchpad?

I just got my 15r today and it has already gone nuts once. Nuts defined as entirely erratic behavior similar to when a normal touchpad gets multiple points of contact causing the cursor to fly around.

Out of nowhere the touchpad will think I am trying to pinch zoom rather than simply scrolling around so I have disabled the pinch zoom feature.

After that my touchpad started thinking I was doing the two finger scroll. Again trying to browse the internet with one finger and thumb on the left click. It has a tendency to lock into a "scroll" mode where I have to click the mouse button to unlock it - Unfortunately that will result in a click wherever the cursor happens to be. Cursor floating over an advertisement? Good job.

So I have disabled the scroll with two fingers as well essentially removing all the benefits of having a multi-touch compatible touchpad.

When I looked up the reviews for this laptop, that model had a Synaptics touchpad. This one has an Alps touchpad. I have battled my alps touchpad on my HP for the last 3 years and I thought I could avoid it.

Using this touchpad is like using a crappy touch screen device. Why can't it let me navigate with one hand on the touchpad? The iphone doesn't care if I have a hand on the screen, it continues to track your finger on the screen.

Keyboard complaints:
NumLock too close to backspace, hit it constantly. Directional pad is tiny. The space bar encourages me to make double spaces even when I don't think I did.
But that's unimportant and irrelevant to the topic.

 

Uninstall the touchpad driver !

 

If I did that, then it would randomly click while I type. Earlier the drivers crashed without warning and the touchpad decided to select a whole paragraph and delete it all as I was typing.

 

Have you tried the Synaptic driver on Dell's website? Though I tend to find they aren't much better than the Windows one. There is also a chance your touchpad is genuinely defective (I service alot of N5010/N5030 at my workplace and the touchpad going bad is the 2nd most common issue).

 

update the touchpad driver frm the dell support site that shud fix the issue tried and tested and worked!

 

I believe it is the Alps touchpad, the last time I tried I couldn't force the synaptics drivers to work on Alps.

My laptop came with the latest drivers available on the site.

I couple days ago I grabbed a different alps driver I think for the 17" model and it seems more stable for now. I realized half of my issue is the size of the touchpad... my left hand rests right above the left portion of the touchpad causing it to go crazy.

:\ alps = fake multi-touch.
I guess I am spoiled by the multi-touch on the ipad. Drag your hand across the screen and get 5 lines... I thought touch pad technology would come at least CLOSE to that by now.

Okay are there any references for Alps touchpad registry settings? I want to disable two finger flick scroll. It gets stuck in scroll mode until I click so I believe it is "inertial scroll" and I want to disable that.