[bmcclure937]

Honestly, I would wait until the meklort has a little more time to play around with the 10v touchpad He just got his 10v yesterday and has plans for better trackpad support in the future!

Hang in there and be patient.

[sangloi]

I have a Dell 10V running snow leopard. Everything works except I do not have touchpad/trackpad in System Preferences. The Keyboard and Mouse preferences are available. Tried installing the Synaptics prefpane using touchpad V18.2 installer
but that crashed the system. I was able to retieve the situation by taking out the drive and restoring the extra folders from a backup. (Easy to do having opened the machine once to install more memory. The next time is easy. I have a usb to sata adapter on my desktop mac.)

[Pizuz]

Hello there, I'd like to share my opinion about the entire touchpad issue. Sorry to say that, but even with your tweaked driver the thing still handles horribly in my opinion, especially considering that the original approach of DellEFI was close to perfection, already.

Those who don't know what I mean by that, I'm talking about the "Restore 10.5.5 preference pane" which made the tap-clicking/dragging options appear, but kept the original Apple touchpad kext. This actually worked better than it ever did on Windows.

If anyone could find a way to bring that functionality back (at least as an option for 10v users), I'd be really happy. I don't care about two-finger scrolling, anyway.

[shines on]

If you'd like to revert to the older trackpad driver from DellEFI, download the DellEFI package from http://mydellmini.googlecode.com/files/DellEFI1.1.zip After the application has been unzipped, right click on the file and then select 'show package contents'. Navigate to contents > resources > extentions and copy ApplePS2Controller.kext to extra/mini10vext/ (backup the current driver to be on the safe side). Run update extra and reboot and you'll be running the older driver. It is, however, impossible to provide side-scrolling or any other advanced features with this driver.

If you want the 10.5.5 prefpane it's located in the prefpanes/ folder in the DellEFI package, however I'm not quite sure how to install it. I assume it goes somewhere in system/library/. You'll have to search around a bit for the correct location.

edit: system/library/preferencepanes

[TheAAPLFreak]

Originally Posted by shines on

If you'd like to revert to the older trackpad driver from DellEFI, download the DellEFI package from http://mydellmini.googlecode.com/files/DellEFI1.1.zip After the application has been unzipped, right click on the file and then select 'show package contents'. Navigate to contents > resources > extentions and copy ApplePS2Controller.kext to extra/mini10vext/ (backup the current driver to be on the safe side). Run update extra and reboot and you'll be running the older driver. It is, however, impossible to provide side-scrolling or any other advanced features with this driver.

If you want the 10.5.5 prefpane it's located in the prefpanes/ folder in the DellEFI package, however I'm not quite sure how to install it. I assume it goes somewhere in system/library/. You'll have to search around a bit for the correct location.

edit: system/library/preferencepanes

I find that to install a prefpane, all you have to do is double-click on it. That is, assuming the cursor doesn't jump away before you can do it

[shines on]

This is normally true, but not for the keyboard/mouse prefpane because its a system prefpane. If you double-click on it OSX will tell you that it's already installed.

[jbloggs]

I miss the side scrolling option - how do I restore the original driver?

[bmcclure937]

Check out .8.3 RC1 ... it included better trackpad support

There is a sticky in this section of the forums

[Thyraz]

@bmcclure937:

Do you know if it's possible to install the Touchpad Driver only?
As long as Audio after Sleep isn't working with with NetbookInstaller, I would like to stick with DellEFI10v, as I use sleep way more then a shutdown/reboot.

edit: ok, meklort already posted a link in the 8.3RC1 thread.

[bmcclure937]

Along with the link meklort posted... you can always download NetbookInstaller, browse package contents (right click) and then find the ApplePS2Contoller.kext.

You then drag-n-drop the kext in /Extras and run UpdateExtras.app