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| Senior Member Posts: 208 Join Date: Feb 2009 |  keyboard/touchpad weirdness? -
06-09-2009, 04:02 AM
hey all, i'm on my mini9 right now with win7 installed..with that said, has anyone had any strange issues with the typing cursor jumping around occasionally? i'd be happily typing away and all of a sudden, my cursor's down halfway through my document and i'm typing in the middle of a different paragraph. i dont think my hands are touching the touchpad (it's happening on both my mini9 and 1330). does this sound like a driver issue? i'm guessing it's gotta be some software issue related to windows7 since i never had this prob on my 1330 until i installed win7 on that. any ideas? |
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| Junior Member Posts: 26 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI |
06-11-2009, 03:22 PM
I have had the same thing happen running XP, Ubuntu, and Win7 on my Mini9. The cursor always jumps to the same line as the mouse arrow, so I'm pretty sure I'm hitting the touchpad somehow and doing a click. It is rather annoying, and trying to type with my hands hovering over the keyboard hasn't helped. Wife's Mini9: Black/2GB Stock/16GB STEC/1.3MP/BT/XP |
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| Senior Member Posts: 153 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham, AL |
06-13-2009, 10:01 PM
I just finished installing Win7 on a Dell mini 9 & the 1st thing I noticed was how much more horrible the trackpad was. Maybe there's a driver that can fix this. |
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| Super Moderator  Posts: 5,958 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Hampshire |
06-13-2009, 11:08 PM
I have the Synaptics driver installed - works fine. Mini 9|2GB RAM|64GB RunCore|Intel 5300|Windows 8 |
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| Member  Posts: 51 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Left of the middle (UK) |
06-16-2009, 06:12 PM
The Synaptics driver is the way to go, Much better. Dell Mini 9|Black|32GB Runcore|2GB RAM|Dell 1505 b/g/n|Bluetooth|Dell 5530|16GB SDHC|Windows 7|Snow Leopard| |
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| Senior Member Posts: 208 Join Date: Feb 2009 |
01-25-2010, 02:28 PM
sorry, forgot to thank you guys for this. synaptics touchpad is now one of the things i keep updated in my pool of fresh install apps.  |
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| Expert Member  Posts: 867 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southern New Jersey, USA |
01-25-2010, 03:44 PM
Sorry to do another "me too" but uh...me too. Wondered what was up with the trackpad and the synaptics drivers cleared it all up. Former Inspiron Mini 9 Owner, Modder, Enthusiast |
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| Junior Member  Posts: 15 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: East Bay, CA |
02-05-2010, 05:06 AM
Does anyone know if it's possible to disable the ugly icons that come up when scrolling? |
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| Junior Member Posts: 2 Join Date: Jan 2010 |
03-11-2010, 01:25 PM
where do you get the synaptics touchpad driver? (I have a 10v with Windows 7) i thought this might be it, but the files won't download. Drivers | Synaptics thanks! |
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| Junior Member Posts: 9 Join Date: Aug 2009 | same problem in OSX -
11-25-2010, 05:19 PM
I have the same, identical problem with the "jumping cursor" when typing over a certain speed, although my Mini 9 runs (for all other aspects, very well) neither on Windows or Ubuntu, but on Os X 10.5.6 installed through the DellEFI method. Is there a version of the Synaptics driver (or equivalent) that I can use as a fix? How to replace the existent driver? Quote:
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