Touchpad driver 7.0.3.9 seems to work better with Firefox. I no longer need that 'Disable when keying' option unchecked.

r u guys serious about the new ones being better?

I just tried it and although firefox scrollng is more smoother, I find it a lot LESS responsive. With the old ones no matter how light I press the pad it registers both fingers and scrolls, with the new ones I have to press a little harder and it does not register both fingers every time.

AND

the BIG turn off was not being about to use the same 2 fingers scroll method, with the old ones I do not need to move BOTH fingers to scroll....do u get what I am saying, I can use just 1 finger to scroll as long as the other one is touching the pad at the same time. Its just like using a normal laptop touchpad with the side scrolling. New ones are very fast scrolling, with the old ones if I have to scroll to the top/bottom of a long page quickly I either use firefox gestures(right click while moving finger on trackpad to the left and up/down) or just middle click(two fingers) on trackpad and just move the curse up/down with one finger.

I find this MUCH more comfortable to use, cause I dont have to move my entire hand over the pad, only my fingers move.

I dont have a major issue with scrolling on the old one, just the odd time the scroll will be slowed down and delays the action, but the action does work and it actually feels even smother but its just a delay.

I will try the new one again later, but for now I dont see a need for them.

EDIT:
I am using Firefox 3.1b1

Last edited by isajoo (2008-10-29 4:26:14 am)

I do agree...Firefox now works fine for me, which is a great  advantage! I had to use chrome as default browser, and it didn't have support for adblock, gestures or multiple dictionaries available just with right click (quite handy if u use more than a language)

Eeetastic wrote:

Hmmm well I've just gone back to touchpad 7.0.3.8 drivers cos the 2 finger scroll wasn't working well with 7.0.3.9, kinda intermittently.

I'll try and explain my issue and see if anyone else has noticed:

when i scroll down a long page (like this forum) and stop half way down, then try and scroll a bit further, the touchpad gets unresponsive and wont scroll. the cursor stays put, but no page scrolling action. i have to lift both figers off the touchpad and then try again. slightly annoying.

7.0.3.8 drivers scrolled ok as long as i have 'Disable while keying' touchpad option unchecked, and Firefox's 'Smooth scrolling' option switched on.

has anyone anyone else noticed this or is it just my fat fingers? :-)

any other differences noticed with these new drivers?

Same here,reinstalled the 7.0.3.8, with 7.0.3.9 two finger scrolling was not good on IE 8.now much better.

Add me to the list of people who have had to revert back to the 1.1.2 wireless driver. I am using N and I started to get a popup from the wireless icon with ver 1.2 highlighting a disconnection that I didn't get with 1.1.2.

I have tried unsuccessfully to upgrade from touchpad driver v7.0.3.5 to v7.0.3.9. 

I tried to remove the Elantech software and the 7.0.3.5 driver via Device Manager, I was told that it had been uninstalled, and I was then prompted to restart the computer in order to complete uninstallation.  But when I restarted the computer, the Elantech software and the 7.0.3.5 driver were still present and so I repeated the process.  After uninstalling and restarting the computer for a second time, they were still present. I went ahead and downloaded 7.0.3.9 anyway, but it would not install.

Would anyone have any idea what I may be doing wrong, or be able to give an idiot's guide on how to perform this upgrade please ?

Last edited by DC (2008-10-30 6:31:51 pm)

Remove ETDWare PS/2-x86 7.0.3.x ......

Thank you dougeeebear.  I had previously checked Control Panel, but could find no reference to Elantech, I didn't realise that was it.

Once I remove that and then download 7.0.3.9, should it auto-install ?

Thank you dougeeebear, it seems to have been successful this time thanks to your help and instructions.

why does the listed graphic accelerator say win2k?

I couldn't have Aero until getting the latest drivers, also it made my performance rating higher in Vista. So I would think that in XP It would help performance too.

ChopstickHero wrote:

anybody update to the latest bios? any noticeable improvements?

Yeah i updated to 1206 bios, but no noticable difference. i've not noticed any difference since 0901 bios which  seemed to enable hyperthreading.

kebabman wrote:

Add me to the list of people who have had to revert back to the 1.1.2 wireless driver. I am using N and I started to get a popup from the wireless icon with ver 1.2 highlighting a disconnection that I didn't get with 1.1.2.

What kind of N speeds are folks getting with 1.1.2 and 1.2?  I'm getting 135k with 1.2, but others here have suggested that 1.1.2 will do better.  Thankfully, I'm at least not having any of the disconnect problems.