Community Matters

The touchpads of the newer EeePCs (certainly the 900/900A/901/1000/1000H) all support some form of multitouch – not all the gestures we’ve seen on other pads, but the most important ones like scroll. The maker of the touchpad (Elantech) has posted newer Windows drivers for the touchpad a couple of months ago which according to several reports dramatically improves the smoothness of the touchpad’s response and add many more gestures (like pinch, browser navigation, etc.), but under Linux the support still isn’t really ideal (and no drivers from Elantech appear to be available). Especially the two-finger scroll that I am so used to from my Mac often doesn’t work. It scrolls a little, but then suddenly thinks that you are actually dragging one finger and switches to select mode – very frustrating.