The driver for touchpad(hid-compliant mouse) is provided by microsoft but the hardware is either from synaptics or elantech, so if you are using the hid-compliant touchpad, the driver is installed by the os.. I have a fresh linux mint 13 install on a new acer aspire laptop. the touchpad doesn't work at all (the usb mouse is ok). i suspect the problem is the driver or the lack thereof.. My touchpad/mousepad doesn't work as great as it has worked on windows. first what i recognized is that the vertical speed is faster than the horizontal when moving the cursor around the display. and that's not all, the vertical resolution is also very bad..
Synaptic driver free download - dl driver updater, synaptic touchpad driver 9.1.20.0.zip, synaptics touchpad driver, and many more programs. New maintainer for the tpconfig driver is bruce kall. the last version of the linux driver posted on this site is 0.1.1. the driver is free software, licensed under the terms of the gpl. what is the synaptics touchpad? the touchpad is a pointing device used in notebooks by acer, compaq, dell, gateway, olivetti, ti, winbook, and others.. Synaptic touchpad for acer free download - synaptic touchpad driver 9.1.20.0.zip, synaptics touchpad driver 7.2.5.0.zip, synaptics touchpad driver 7.5.4.0.zip, and.
