[cookiemonster]

I know I have at times been quite confused as to which drivers were for what hardware, and there has especially been some confusion over the different drivers for the Battery Meter/Wireless Select Switch thing. I therefore decided to compile a list of the various drivers together with their...

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[ahogan]

I mistakenly installed the drivers in the wrong order, but I haven't noticed any issues yet. Would yall recommend I go back and redo this process to make sure they are in the right order? If I don't, and later there are issues, will I have to reinstall XP again, or just the drivers?

Thanks

[dont]

Originally Posted by SlvrScoobie

will this thread also highlight other drivers that can increase functionality? the sysnaptics driver from the larger laptops which includes support for gestures (even forward and back) and edge control works perfectly on the mini 9
its really quite handy except the back button area is a bit large and sometime i go back by mistake oops!

Care to post this driver somewhere?

[WolfKeeper]

Originally Posted by ahogan

I mistakenly installed the drivers in the wrong order, but I haven't noticed any issues yet. Would yall recommend I go back and redo this process to make sure they are in the right order? If I don't, and later there are issues, will I have to reinstall XP again, or just the drivers?

You should be fine. I've rebuilt dozens of Dell laptops, desktops, and servers and I've never had an issue with driver install order. The only drivers I try to install first is the board chipset drivers.

[ahogan]

Thanks for the info!

[holmes4]

Originally Posted by dont

Care to post this driver somewhere?

http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers

[dont]

Originally Posted by holmes4

dont wrote:Care to post this driver somewhere?


http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers

This is the generic Synaptics driver which does not support gestures, the OP was talking about Dell specific drivers for some of the larger Dell laptops.

I guess these are available on the Dell site, but some guidance on which laptop to try would be welcome.

[kadac00]

Any way to tell which driver I'm missing? I've got an unknown device showing in device manager with the following details
ACPI\CPL0002\2&DABA3FF&0

[cookiemonster]

COMPAL Embedded System Control

c:\windows\system32\drivers\EMSC.sys
c:\windows\system32\WdfCoinstaller01005.dll

[kadac00]

Originally Posted by kadac00

Any way to tell which driver I'm missing? I've got an unknown device showing in device manager with the following details
ACPI\CPL0002\2&DABA3FF&0

OK, disregard...google to the rescue.

Battery meter driver (of all things) took care of it.

[Jasedontlie]

post #1, and from my Mini 9 (1Gb, 8 GB SSD) - just a thanks for the list of drivers! Will have to check out the touchpad driver for sure! 3 days now and counting...love it so far!