2 weeks ago
I just bought an ASUS Eee PC 1005HA the other day. It’s easily my favourite netbook to date apart from a few minor annoyances. One: I can’t upgrade the hard drive without voiding warranty (growing trend?). Second: The flush touchpad makes it difficult to scroll vertically.
I find this very annoying and can spend seconds fiddling around, every time I want to scroll, trying to find the scroll area since there is no physical edge to bump your finger against and the subtly bumped surface is no help at all.
Luckily, thanks to the awesome folks on the Eee User forums there you can enable multi-touch, two fingered scrolling on the ASUS Eee PC Seashell series (1005HA, 1008HA and 1101HA). This isn’t new news but I just have to mention it since it has made using the 1005HA an even better experience.
Updated drivers enable you to do (seen on the Synaptics homepage):
- Two-fingered scrolling vertically / horizontally
- Three-fingered swiping left and right - go back and forth in browser / apps
- hold three fingers - brings up customizable application
Instructions to enable multi-touch abilities:
- Download the latest synaptic drivers (need at least v13. ASUS ships with 12.2.8)
- Uninstall your current drivers and reboot. Install new drivers and reboot.
- Download this file -> synpd_enableSGS.zip. Contains an .inf file.
- Right click the above file and choose “install”. This will enable the new multi-touch features. You can now tweak your settings in the driver icon in the taskbar.
Enjoy!
It’s best to go into the settings and turn off chiralmotion and standard vertical scrolling on the side. Awesome. Unfortunately I don’t think these features work in Linux :(
Do you think this would work for any Synaptics touchpad equipped netbook, like my Acer 751? I’d love to have 2 finger scrolling. Right now I have the chiral scroll, side scroll, and pinch functions. But no option for 2 fingered scrolling.
If it were possible I’m sure it would be covered in the AspireOne forums. I haven’t checked there in ages though.
Thanks for participating!
my eee 1001p had a factory settings problem under Windows XP: it would not allow me to go to synaptic touchpad device settings, had to uninstall it and then reinstall the touchpad driver from asus eee website (ver. 13.2.6.1). This driver allows everything EXCEPT chiral motion.
Furthermore, newer versions of the driver from Synaptics website allow chiral scrolling but disabled two finger tapping (middle mouse) and three finger tapping that are essential to the touchpad functionality.
So I had to install back the eee driver 13.2.6.1 and then tweak the registry; to enable chiral scrolling, remove “visibility” in following windows registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPCpl\Controls\2Scrolling\1One-Finger Scrolling\3Chiral
All multitouch features are now easily switchable in the touchpad properties > Device settings > settings. Awesome. Hopefully this helps people with similar problems.
its eathwer im not doing it right or it doesnt work on my 1005ha