Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:47:41PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: >> 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. This patch upgrades Intrepid to >> bcm5974-0.6, which by default operates as a regular mouse. > > This sounds wrong. The live CD is supposed to load the synaptics driver > by default, so this sounds like a bug in the hal fdi file that tells the > system to use this driver with this hardware. >
This sounds right! A solution seems to have surfaced in debian a couple of weeks ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464662 The hal policy only needs to be extended with an fdi identifier for the apple trackpads. Thanks, Henrik -- 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: Fix Committed Status in “linux-meta” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed 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
