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CES: Synaptics "Cervantes" External Trackpad

...on notebooks and the majority of them are made by hardware supplier Synaptics. At CES we saw the Cervantes reference design for an external trackpad... Read more

21 January, 2011

A Tale of the Synaptics "ClickPad

...touchpad". I now know that the device in question is actually a Synaptics ClickPad, which is a multi-touch enabled touchpad with integrated buttons. The... Read more

5 January, 2011

Vector Linux 7.0 GOLD Released

With all the excitement and discussion surrounding the recent release of Linux Mint 12 (and Fedora 16, and openSuSE... Read more

30 November, 2011

Mageia 1 Linux Distribution Released

About a year or so ago, rumors started flying in the Linux community about Mandriva Linux having serious... Read more

3 June, 2011
Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A

Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A

The Samsung Series 9 certainly won't be for every wallet, but this light, well-featured and striking 13.3in. notebook is the closest the Windows world will ever come to a MacBook Air. However, its higher-than-the-Air price will be hard to stomach. Read more

6 April, 2011 by Scott Stein

Loose Ends - HP Pavilion dm1-3105 and Bluetooth

...found two significant problems with it - the Ralink WiFi adapter and the Synaptics ClickPad touchpad. Since then, the Ralink driver has been included in the... Read more

22 April, 2012

Lessons Learned, Not Always Easy

...bit of an anomaly. I hate using it because of the blasted Synaptics ClickPad monstrosity, but as soon as I put an external mouse or... Read more

23 January, 2012

openSuSE 12.1 Released

It has been a long development cycle, with a lot of very hard work by the developers, leading to the release yesterday... Read more

17 November, 2011

SalineOS 1.5

...driver for the Ralink WiFi adapter, and it doesn't get the Synaptics ClickPad right at all. Once you have decided to go ahead and... Read more

27 October, 2011

A Tale of Two Betas (almost)

I don't often write about pre-release versions of Linux distributions any more - I did for a while, but the amount of... Read more

26 September, 2011

Linux Mint (Debian) 201109 Gnome and Xfce Final Release

...minute or less, and I consider the ClickPad to be an HP (Synaptics) problem, not a Linux problem. - Samsung NF310 (netbook): I believe that this... Read more

19 September, 2011

Mandriva Linux 2011.0 Released

Well, "It's Been A Long Time Coming". If you're not old enough to remember Crosby, Stills & Nash singing that song at... Read more

29 August, 2011

PCLinuxOS LXDE 2011.6 - Excellent Lightweight

...Chrome9 display controller and Broadcom 4311 WiFi controller; the S10 for its Synaptics "ClickPad" touchpad and Broadcom 4313 WiFi controller. What I found was actually... Read more

30 June, 2011

Linux Mint Debian Edition Updates

...One good example of this is that Mint Debian now includes the Synaptics driver version 1.4.0, which handles the "ClickPad" on my Lenovo... Read more

16 June, 2011

Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released

The new release from the Fedora Project, release 15 with codename "Lovelock" was made available for download yesterday. ... Read more

25 May, 2011

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SoapyTablet

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"cites" even. Ouch!

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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