Lenovo G585 and the inbuilt Elan driver

Hello. I'm a proud owner of a Lenovo G585. Swiched from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. When i was downloading the drivers, at the Touch pad I saw that there is no driver for Elan, and use the inbuilt.
The problem is:
1. The inbuilt 8.1 Elan touchpad driver lacks gesture and multi touch finctionality (like side scroll, etc), and also no visible control panel.
2. No visible option to automaticaly disable the touchpad when external USB mouse is connected. This is a big issue, as most of the times I forget to manually disable the touchpad, and it reacts when I type).
These funtions work in both Win7 and Win8 drivers.
As the Windows 8 driver sometimes crashes on Windows 8.1, I would like to ask for an official Windows 8.1 driver (as Synaptics does have a driver).

Same here (Lenovo G580). Fell back to Windows 8 drivers untill notice from Lenovo.

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