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.
Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/263451 Patches for this bug are now in Andrew's -mm tree: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/broken-out/bcm5974-064-minor-cleanups-for-scripts-checkpatchpl.patch http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/broken-out/bcm5974-064-finger-tracking-and-counting-improved-further.patch http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/broken-out/bcm5974-063-btn_touch-event-added-for-mousedev.patch Cheers, Henrik _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
