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[earlizd1]

i added middle click
enjoy
http://rapidshare.co..._click.exe.html

[todd_aved]

I got some good news for people using 64 version of windows vista and windows 7 on their Gemstone
I have a 5920G, and I am using windows 7. I could not get most of drivers to work properly on my system. I tried the driver provided by us.acer.com; it didn't work. I tried the one provided by synaptics and that one didn't work either.
anyhow, the only driver that did work was the one for aspire 6920G. It can be downloaded form us.acer.com. The driver version is 10.2.4. Ironically, this version is newer than the latest one in the synaptics official website. It is just the perfect driver hiding in the wrong place.
The luxpad settings work flawlessly...everything works like charm.

[Electrofreak]

I'm trying to do the same thing that Discrucio has done here with ELAN drivers for other notebook models.

Problem is, I don't have a whole lot of idea what I'm doing.

ELAN sued Apple a few years back for violating their multitouch patent. There was a lot of media about it at first, but nowhere can you actually find how the whole thing was resolved. Well, I'm pretty sure what happened. A few months later, almost every single multitouch gesture had disappeared from Elan's drivers. I'll bet Apple paid them off, and made them agree to take certain multitouch functions out of their drivers.

So I'm left 3 types of ELAN drivers to work with:

- Some old ELAN XP/Vista EEE PC drivers that were released right before the lawsuit that support the multitouch features. Unfortunately, I can't get them to install onto my ASUS laptop with Windows 7, it keeps telling me I don't have the right hardware.

- My current ELAN Win 7 touchpad drivers, multitouch neutered. The driver files are all right around the same size as the EEE PC drivers, so I'm almost certain that they contain the multitouch support, just locked. On the ELAN website, it even has a video of the multitouch features in use, but the driver download webpage is gone now and they refer you to your laptop manufacturer for neutered drivers. I guess that way they don't have to take the blame.

- ELAN Win 7 external USB touchpad multitouch drivers. Identical to the above drivers, just that they will only install if a USB touchpad is attached, and presumably, will only only work for that device. Must be the settlement with Apple didn't include external touchpads, as the USB touchpad fully supports all of the multitouch features.

Attempts to hack the ASUS EEE PC netbook ELAN touchpad drivers to accept my ASUS notebook's ELAN touchpad hardware (which is virtually identical) and install have been unsuccessful, setup continues to fail and tell me that the driver will only work for an ELAN Smart-Pad (which is what I have!) The .inf for the EEE PC drivers even has a set of entries to enable and disable the touchpad multitouch features... the newer drivers do not... otherwise it would be child's play to unlock.

I've been trying to use a modified version of the USB touchpad's .inf file on the current drivers to unlock the multitouch options, but it doesn't seem to be working.

If anyone is interested in helping me (Discrucio? ) please let me know.

We shouldn't be locked out of multitouch on our laptops because Apple paid off the touchpad manufacturer.

Edited by Electrofreak, 07 March 2010 - 08:06 PM.