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When I ran the ALPS Installer and restarted, I had no touchpad input after rebooting. Had to restore my old ApplePS2Controller.kext via keyboard.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y510 with Synaptics touchpad.

Oh, I had to play with the thresholds and stuff in the config file. The only problem I'm having now is that despite disabling circular scrolling, it seems enabled every time I reboot. The checkbox for it in preferences is unchecked, but scrolling goes CRAZY until I check and uncheck it, every boot up. Any idea whats up?

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Hey I have 2 finger scroll working here, but when I reboot the horizontal axis is disabled, although the checkbox is checked. When i uncheck it and check it again its working...

Anyone the same problem and / or solution?

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Hey I have 2 finger scroll working here, but when I reboot the horizontal axis is disabled, although the checkbox is checked. When i uncheck it and check it again its working...

Anyone the same problem and / or solution?

 

yeah, that happens to me as well... gotta fix it after every reboot... also, another problem i face is tap click gets messed up after i sleep/wake it once... to get it to work properly i hav to either sleep/wake another time or shutdown and boot with -v -f [rebooting with -v -f doesn't work]

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hej guys,

 

tried the tutorial on my hp nx7400 which should be working according to another one in this thread...

 

well... it works fine !!! BUT once i restart my laptop, the trackpad is fast as hell, can't do the one finger scrolling anymore.

only solution : Enter the sudo codes again... after that it works perfectly...

 

Looks like that FFS doesn't start up .. (but it is in the selected folder written in the first post...)

 

any suggestions?

would be very grateful!

 

best regards

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I've searched this thread and I don't think anyone is having the same issue I am...

 

After rebooting a second time, it wanted me to fix the security settings again, so I clicked fix. Now, the touchpad is overly sensitive, but I can kill and restart FFScrollDaemon. Starting FFScroll manually has no effect, and double clicking the program from Finder gives me an error :

 

/Library/StartupItems/FFScroll/FFScroll ; exit;

/Library/StartupItems/FFScroll/FFScroll: line 25: $1: unbound variable

logout

 

[Process completed]

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On the issue of not getting tap-clicking when you sleep...

 

With my Compaq CQ40 notebook, I found out that tap-clicking will work if I enable the "Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screensaver" in the Security Preference Pane. In fact, I could tap click on the controls on password prompt--which was how I discovered this little fix. But otherwise, I get the same "no tap-click" bug when I wake up the computer with no password prompt.

 

By the way, I didn't even had to restart to get it working. It just does that when I enable that option in System Preferences. And since we're using laptops, isn't this option something we should all enable?.. :P

 

Hope this helps anyone.. :)

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Got this on my HP DV6200.

but doesnt work properly when trying to scroll so i unistalled it.

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Thanks for the files and instructions.

 

I'm on a Dell Studio 1535 (ALPS touchpad).

I installed the package and 2 finger works nice without further tweaking.

 

My question is... should the scroll with just 1 finger (Windows way) work? It never worked for me in OSx, before or after installing this package.

 

Thanks,

 

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hy.after several tries, with sensitivty and treshold values, it's working! I need just classic scrolling, vertical, so the rest it;s unimportant for me. THANKS!

 

 

 

acer extensa 5220, 1.5g ram, 1.73. celeron, xxx x86 10.5.5 distro+10.5.5 apple+9.5.0 vanilla, everything working but sleep and sony ms card.

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FYI - This tutorial will enable two-finger scrolling for the Acer Aspire One A150. Worked for me.

 

I tried it on my A150 but it disabled tap-clicking. Can you send me your plists?

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Hello, friends.

After 10.5.6 update (from internet) my touchpad prefpane become hidden!

Please see screenshot. (1 part - there is no 'touchpad' separately, as it sould be in 10.5.6

2 part - I open Keyboard prefpane but still can't see touchpad tab.

3 part - I find category SOftware - Pref panels, and read that Touchpad is unactive.)

 

BTW, I have an excellent work of 2-scroll, tapping, clicking and others. Touchpad works successfully.

But I can't see it's preferences.

FFScroll prefpane is presented in System Settings.

 

Well, what would you say about it?

 

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Could anybody upload here old Keyboard.Prefpane from /System/Library/PreferencePanes? I need version from 10.5.5 / 10.5.4.

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