** Changed in: mactel-support Importance: Undecided => High -- Intrepid: Mouse pointer frozen by default on bcm5974-based macbooks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263451 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support.
Status in Mactel Support: New Status in “linux-meta” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: linux-image Tested on Intrepid Daily Live i386 CD, 31AUG2008: Starting up the CD on a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Penryn, both of which use the bcm5974 trackpad driver, the mouse pointer is initially frozen. The reason is that the bcm5974 driver only mimics a synaptics touchpad, not a mouse. After configuring the synaptics driver everything is fine, but the default behavior is simply not going to work well for first time users. The suggested remedy is to add a second, default, configuration to the bcm5974 driver, where it works as a multi-button mouse, using multi-finger options. This will give several benefits: * The default Xorg configuration will pick up the mouse input interface, resulting in a functional mouse pointer. * Multi-scroll will work without the need to configure the synaptics driver. * Multi-finger button emulation, which currently only exists in the mactel version of the synaptics driver, will work out-of-the-box. Basically, unless multi-finger-tapping is wanted, no reconfiguration of Xorg or bcm5974 will be necessary. A patch will be submitted shortly. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
