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[Bill]

v5.4.104.4 - The latest DELL Alps GlidePoint/StickPointer driver

• iNFO & DOWNLOAD
• released 2006-06-23
• ~2,0MB
• MultiLanguage
• Fixes and Enhancements:
  Adds the feature where the touchpad/stick is disabled when a USB mouse is plugged in. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled via a checkbox on the Devices tab in the Touchpad. When a USB mouse is plugged in a pop up message informs the user that a USB mouse has been detected and that the touchpad/stick has been disabled. A red 'X' appears over the touchpad icon in the systray when it is disabled.

v5.5.1302.12 - The latest ASUS Alps GlidePoint/StickPointer driver

• iNFO & DOWNLOAD (1981kb)
• released 2006-08-01
• for Windows 2000 and XP (32bit)
• MultiLanguage
• Supports:
  %*PNP0F13.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst0F13,*PNP0F13,ACPI\PNP0F13
  %*AUI1301.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1301,*AUI1301,ACPI\AUI1301
  %*AUI1302.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1302,*AUI1302,ACPI\AUI1302
  %*AUI1303.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1303,*AUI1303,ACPI\AUI1303
  %*AUI1304.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1304,*AUI1304,ACPI\AUI1304
  %*AUI1305.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1305,*AUI1305,ACPI\AUI1305
  %*AUI1306.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1306,*AUI1306,ACPI\AUI1306
  %*AUI1307.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1307,*AUI1307,ACPI\AUI1307
  %*AUI1308.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1308,*AUI1308,ACPI\AUI1308
  %*AUI1309.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1309,*AUI1309,ACPI\AUI1309
  %*AUI1310.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1310,*AUI1310,ACPI\AUI1310
  %*AUI1311.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1311,*AUI1311,ACPI\AUI1311
  %*AUI1312.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1312,*AUI1312,ACPI\AUI1312
  %*AUI1313.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1313,*AUI1313,ACPI\AUI1313
  %*AUI1314.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1314,*AUI1314,ACPI\AUI1314
  %*AUI1315.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1315,*AUI1315,ACPI\AUI1315
  %*AUI1316.DeviceDesc% = MouFilter_Inst1316,*AUI1316,ACPI\AUI1316

v6.0.305.6 - The latest TOSHiBA Alps GlidePoint/StickPointer driver

• DOWNLOAD for XP
• released 2005-06-14
• ~2,5MB

v7.1.102.7 - DELL

• Download over @ DELL

other versions - TOSHiBA Alps GlidePoint/StickPointer driver

• v6.0.305.5, XP DOWNLOAD
  v6.0.305.5, 2K DOWNLOAD
• v6.0.304.6, 2K/XP DOWNLOAD
• v6.0.304.5, 2K/XP DOWNLOAD
• v6.0.303.5, 2K/XP DOWNLOAD
• v6.0.303.4, 2K DOWNLOAD
  v6.0.303.4, 2K/XP DOWNLOAD
• v6.0.302.7, XP DOWNLOAD
  v6.0.302.7, 2K DOWNLOAD
• v6.0.302.3, XP DOWNLOAD

Edited by ®®®, 16 May 2008 - 08:20 PM.

[Charlie T]

XP x86 7.1.102.7
Dell

[Darmdorf]

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Dell version of the Alps drivers 'Charlie T' posted above also work just fine in my old Dell Latitude [which is NOT on their list of affected models]. The touchpad has a separate configuration GUI, but still calls the mouse configuration GUI as well. It would seem to me that the core resident processes are a bit smaller and less CPU hungry than the old 5.xxx version I was running. Nice to have! Also included them in the thread title for all to read.

By the way, the drivers appear to be generic, as I can't recall seeing any DEV_IDs in the INF at all.

Thanks Charlie T!!

[zog]

Latest Dell drivers:

http://ftp.us.dell.c...put/R191111.exe
http://support.us.de...p;fileid=262499

Release Date: 8/13/2008
Version: 7.2.101.210, A06

Compatibility

Systems
Latitude E5400
Latitude E5500
Latitude E6400
Latitude E6500
Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M2400
Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M4400

Operating systems
Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit
Microsoft Windows XP

Anyone tried them with Inspirons?

Edited by zog, 21 August 2008 - 06:44 AM.

[coolcop06]

http://support.us.de...p;fileid=273825
http://ftp.us.dell.c...A07_R198081.exe
here is newer version A07
resolved problem with swapping touchpad buttons when external usn connected..workes with
lat e-series and xt

i love these drivers for my xps m1530. alot of cool features that werent in the original driver. thanks!

[zog]

will it work with other models? like inspiron 1525

Edited by zog, 11 January 2009 - 08:51 AM.

[NighTalon]

Version 7.5.1711.118 A from HP.

http://h10025.www1.h...product=4011352

If this link doesn't work for you, look under downloads for the HP Mini 311.

[NighTalon]

Windows 7 Update:

Toshiba

The latest drivers I've found are available on Toshiba's website. Go to support.toshiba.com and select "Latest Drivers..." and then "Touchpad" from the drop-down menu. This will provide you with the following version:

7.102.302.203

10/1/2009

I am successfully using this version on a Dell Precision M4400 (3-button pointing stick plus 3-button trackpad) and a Toshiba Tecra M7. (two-button trackpad) This is practically a pure ALPS installer, since I think it was rushed out the door to fix a lack-of-responsivity bug in Windows 7 for Toshiba laptops. Tosh outfits an especially high proportion of its laptops with ALPS trackpads, I'd imagine, because both companies are Japanese.

Please note that this version does not have frozen cursor animations. Unfortunately, while maintaining the same installer mechanism as Synaptics trackpads, ALPS trackpads do not support multi-touch, and generally have fewer features than Synaptics trackpads.

That said, to optimize my experience, I set the middle button on the pointing-stick to Auto-scroll, meaning that tapping it once puts it in scrolling mode, which is nice for Firefox, which otherwise requires you to hold down the middle button to scroll.

I also increased the sensitivity, (there are no sliders for reducing palm-checking sensitivity) and increased the speed relative to the Windows default, which I keep at 50%. This seems to be ideal for external mice, although for my Logitech mice, I do use SetPoint and don't have SetPoint set to override the Windows Mouse settings.


Dell

That said, if you want an official Dell driver, which might be ideal since the ALPS driver described above sometimes renders the trackpad unresponsive after resuming from Standby, you'll have to deal with their pretty, but rather more limited (in some senses) GUI. The latest version is A11, available on the Precision M4400 Windows 7 64-bit download page:

7.102.101.223

7/29/2009

The Dell GUI supports zoom along the left side of the trackpad and circular scrolling. I don't know if these features can be enabled in the ALPS GUI via the registry. I do know that I was unable to disable the Dell GUI via the registry, despite being apple to change the "UseCustomGUI" settings. I also know that both these drivers support Firefox out of the box, which did not use to be the case: such support used to require changing the application name from "Firefox" to "Netscape". The Dell driver set allows setting "acceleration" for the pointing stick and "speed" for the trackpad. I don't know what exactly these names correspond to. Do note that Dell still has not fixed the animated cursor bug. (ugh...)

[NighTalon]

Also, Acer has the following driver available for the AOD-150 netbook:

8/7/2009
7.105.2002.1107

Frozen cursors. Who knows what these numbers really mean? Furthermore, this driver comes with an ALPS control panel, not as attractive as the Toshiba/ALPS one, allows for circular scrolling, and also doesn't suck like the Dell GUI does. This appears to be the GUI they show on their website.