A friend and I have been discussing an issue we’ve both been seeing on our laptops: The mouse cursor “jumps” when using the touchpad. It’s intermittent, unpredictable, and seemingly random, but it seems to jump about 3 inches straight up on the screen. It seems to happen only on Windows-based OSes; We both installed Ubuntu Linux at a point and didn’t notice it at all.
He pointed me to the R165805 Dell Touchpad / Pointing Stick driver from the Dell website.
I am using it on a D630 with Windows 7… it works, and solves the problem.
The listed compatibility is:
| Systems | Latitude D530 Latitude D630c Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M2300 |
| Operating systems | Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit |
Update 2/10/2013: gund brought to my attention that the download link is no longer active. Here is a direct link to the R165805.EXE file on Dell’s FTP site. If that ever becomes unavailable, you can try this driver, but I haven’t tested it myself: R165804 Dell Touchpad / Pointing Stick.
I’ll welcome any comments on this.
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NMI
November 29, 2010 at 11:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
If it works on 7 then it should work on Vista as well. Similar, if not same kernel.
It would be interesting if some of our customers problems with “jumping cursors” can be fixed with this “software issue”.
ads
July 21, 2011 at 4:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
this is the 32 bit windows 7 version which worked on dell d630 laptop
Sohail Ali
November 16, 2011 at 1:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
my latop dell d630 tuch paid right and lift keys not work what
can i do ?????my windows 7 oprating
joe
June 3, 2012 at 1:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
How coincidental, I just discovered the mouse driver on dell’s website and wanted to share the solution, and you found it already. Well now we can all have a mouse that works properly!
gund
February 10, 2013 at 8:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
i have this problem and the link to the driver is no longer active. can you tell me where i might find it?
Mike
February 10, 2013 at 8:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’ve made an update to the post above with an alternate download location, and a possible alternative driver.
kirsten
February 11, 2013 at 6:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m having the same trouble. I’m running XP. I installed the driver from the direct link suggested above, and all went well until the very end, when my screen said that my OS can’t use this driver.
Ouch. Guess I should try once again to try to get Linux to work for me.
kirsten
February 11, 2013 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oops. I meant, “I should try once again to get Linux to work for me.” I guess my frustration with past attempts leaked into my syntax: try to try.