Synaptics confirmed for a piece of shit

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Synaptics confirmed for a piece of shit 2017-09-05 07:54:41 Post No. 62270874
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Synaptics confirmed for a piece of shit Anonymous 2017-09-05 07:54:41 Post No. 62270874 [Report]

If your laptop has a Synaptics trackpad, it's shit.

>TL;DR – be wary of buying a Lenovo laptop or any other laptop that uses a Synaptics touch pad until Synaptics ships a fixed driver. Their driver has a memory leak and they have a battery-life bug that causes Windows to repeat the same system-scan once a second. So far Synaptics has failed to respond so the wait for a fix must be assumed to be infinite.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/hey-synaptics-can-you-please-stop-polling/

Anonymous 2017-09-05 07:59:36 Post No.62270967
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 07:59:36 Post No.62270967 [Report]

>>62270874
There seem to have been more issues like this in the past. That being said, some were the fault of filter drivers (some kind of driver plugin?)

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:00:50 Post No.62270986
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:00:50 Post No.62270986 [Report]

>>62270874
Compared to the nightmare that is Alps and the joke that is Elantech, Synaptics is god-tier

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:03:50 Post No.62271044
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:03:50 Post No.62271044 [Report]

>>62270986
>Synaptics is god-tier
it's literally the worst thing about PC laptops.

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:05:37 Post No.62271082
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:05:37 Post No.62271082 [Report]

>>62270874
Haven't had that problem yet, but there's a worse issue with the Ricoh card reader where the driver will get stuck using a whole CPU core every few weeks or so. Sometimes it takes me a while to notice even that, because Twitch wastes my CPU time and battery life worse than anything else.

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:15:59 Post No.62271263
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:15:59 Post No.62271263 [Report]

>>62270874
>Windows
Sitting on Alps, Elantech, and Syanptcis, and they just work on Linux.

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:21:13 Post No.62271337
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:21:13 Post No.62271337 [Report]

>>62270874
>windows

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:34:36 Post No.62271545
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:34:36 Post No.62271545 [Report]

>>62270874
>windows

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:35:39 Post No.62271568
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:35:39 Post No.62271568 [Report]

>>62270874
I uninstalled that the second I got my laptop.

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:36:40 Post No.62271590
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:36:40 Post No.62271590 [Report]

>wangblows
kek

Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:59:58 Post No.62271992
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 08:59:58 Post No.62271992 [Report]

>>62270874
>If your laptop has a Synaptics trackpad, it's shit.
Sounds like you didn't read the blog you posted. It's one version of the driver, if that's enough to make an entire company's range of products shit then truly everything is as this is a relatively minor issue.

Anonymous 2017-09-05 09:01:27 Post No.62272017
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 09:01:27 Post No.62272017 [Report]

>>62271044
yeah maybe if you're using Windows
the drivers are fantastic in Linux

Anonymous 2017-09-05 09:03:50 Post No.62272048
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 09:03:50 Post No.62272048 [Report]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/pc-oems-ditch-the-custom-touchpad-drivers-give-us-precision-touchpad/

Thankfully my touchpad is Windows 10 Precision Touchpad

Anonymous 2017-09-05 10:04:32 Post No.62272905
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Anonymous 2017-09-05 10:04:32 Post No.62272905 [Report]

>>62270874
kek

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