Today's special F U goes to #Synaptics and #Microsoft for a horrible touchpad driver experience in #Windows 11.
Why do I have to install drivers from 2019 to make my touchpad identify as something other than a mouse?
Why is the Windows 11 touchpad settings menu basically empty no matter what?
Why do I have to run a weird dell app from 2019 working to configure Windows to disable the touchpad when a USB mouse is connected?
There are only 2-3 touchpad manufacturers. This shouldn't be so hard.
HP ProBook 645 G3 — Synaptics touchpad enumerates as "PS/2 Generic Mouse" after sleep/boot, no gestures, phantom clicks #mouse #touchpad #synaptics #multitouch
System details Laptop: HP ProBook 645 G3 OS: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Kernel: 7.0.0-22-generic BIOS: P82 Ver. 01.45 (latest available) Windowing system: Wayland (GNOME 50) Problem A...
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Synaptics Coralboard is a development board powered by a Synaptics Astra SL2619 Edge AI SoC with a 1 TOPS Synaptics Torq inference engine implementing a Google Coral NPU, and supporting hardware-accelerated Google Gemma 3 lightweight models. The board features 2GB of RAM and offers MIPI camera and display interfaces, a microSD card slot, a USB Type-A port, microphone inputs (I2S), mikroBUS and Qwiic- expansion connectors, and optional Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity through an M.2 expansion slot. Synaptics Coralboard specifications: System-on-module - Grinn AstraSOM-261x SoC - Synaptics Astra SL2619 SoC with 2x Cortex-A55 cores @ 2GHz, 1x Cortex-M52 core @ 200MHz, and 1 TOPS Synaptics Torq (Google Coral NPU) System Memory - 2GB DDR4 @ 3200Mbps (optionally 1GB) Storage - 16GB flash, up to 64GB Input Voltage - 3.2V to 5.5V Dimensions - 25 x 25mm, LGA178 package Storage - MicroSD card slot for mass storage Display - 4-lane MIPI DSI connector
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