[Tremelune]

I feel like the only real flaw with the default drivers is the fact that the "button" area of the trackpad is not ignored. This is what causes the jumpiness. With the V18 drivers, the jumpiness is solved, but at the expense of being able to rest your thumb on the button and still use the rest of the trackpad for mousing around.

Is there any way to simply disable the lower centimeter of the trackpad? I think it would go a long way towards sorting out the general wonkiness of this thing.

[Hermn8r]

First of all, I'm new to the forum and a proud new owner of a 10v running OSX. So hello!

Second, thanks to everybody on this forum who helped me get the OS up and running, whether through guides or video.

Third, and to the point... great job on the trackpad fixes, Melkort! I haven't scrolled all 79 pages of this thread (sorry), so perhaps you have mentioned it before. But I agree with the above post in that the trackpad problems would be solved if it was possible to simply ignore the bottom cm for scrolling or tracking, and simply use that area for the left and right buttons. Is there any way this can be made possible? I'm not sure if the lower area on the new Macbook's are sensitive to scrolling, but this single track/touchpad area on the 10v would seem to most closely resemble that configuration. I guess I'd like to be more educated on what limitations you're running into. Thanks!

[meklort]

There is, but I don't think it'll help much. What I have done is disabled scrolling when you are pressing a button which is the way the new macbook do it (fortunately there is an apple store here...).

It actually seems to work fairly well.

[emf33]

I'd like to add my voice to those who would like to see the choice of having both trackpad buttons be the main button. The buttons are so small it's too easy to hit the wrong one. I'm used to using the control key to generate the secondary mouse click so having the two buttons act the same is no problem for me.

[rxmd]

I'm experiencing the startup problem mentioned by some people. I'm on a fresh 10.5.7 system, with a clean install of the v18 kext following the instructions on p. 65. Sometimes after bootup, or when the machine wakes up from sleep, cursor movement is erratic until I make some change in meklort's Trackpad preference pane. It feels as if there is a preferences file somewhere whose settings don't always get applied on bootup or on wakeup until you use the preference pane. Feels like a problem with an initialisation somewhere.

[peekj]

I still don't understand how anyone can use this driver properly.... I've tried 2 different versions of it now and dragging anything is completely unusable. Am I missing something? If I click with my left hand and try to drag with the right, it jumps all over the place.

[mexirab]

Hi,
I just installed the files from the original post, but my one finger scrolling or clicking still doesn't work. The decreased sensitivity of the trackpad does for sure though. I did I get the latest files from the first post, or are there other ones hidden in this thread? Sorry, still going through the thread to see what else I missed, but I thought I would ask.

New Dell Mini OSx user here. Just upgraded to 10.8 today and working fine.

[trentmini]

I just got my Dell mini 9 yesterday and have been getting is setup this weekend. Everything worked perfectly, except a way to scroll with the trackpad. So I was looking for a fix and found this thread. Followed the instructions but it didn't work for me. I thought it might have something to do with the 10.5.8 update since most users seemed to still be running 10.5.7. I did some digging around and was finally able to get it working by adding /System/ to the path in some of the terminal commands. I also edited the string in com.meklort.ps2.helper.plist to adjust for this (though not sure if it matters). So the final commands for me were:

sudo cp -rf Synaptics\ Trackpad.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
sudo chmod +x /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Synaptics\ Trackpad.prefPane/Contents/Resources/preferenceHelper

sudo cp -rf com.meklort.ps2.helper.plist /System/Library/LaunchAgents/

sudo cp -rf /Extra/Mini9Ext/ApplePS2Controller.kext /Extra/ApplePS2Controller.kext.bak
sudo cp -rf ApplePS2Controller.kext /Extra/Mini9Ext/
open /Extra/UpdateExtra.app

Hopefully this will help someone else who is installing fresh from 10.5.8 install. Hey Meklort - awesome job! Thanks a ton.

[hackingmini]

If I go into System Preferences, it appears I've got the Trackpad under Other. I'm suffering from "jumpiness" on the trackpad. Is this a symptom of the trackpad itself or the drivers.

Can someone point me in the right direction to remove the custom drivers. I'd like to see how it performs without it.

[kdawg]

Question. Is Apple's trackpad preference pane supposed to be removed when installing the Synaptics version?