Stupid me: it's the Gnome settings which disabled taps and stuff like that. I just found out that with my fdi file in place, taps worked all right in the gdm login screen, but failed once the session was started. I found the corresponding settings in System / Settings / Mouse / Touchpad.
So I take back my complaints: things work, only the Mactel guides talking about fdi files need adjusting, as settings are now per-user and not per-system. If you can manage to log in without those settings, that is. -- [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 touchpad not fully supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337935 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New Status in The Linux Kernel: Confirmed Status in Mactel Support: Triaged Status in XOrg-Driver-Synaptics - synaptics driver for XOrg: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xorg The touchpad for MacBook 5.1 is not supported completely in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) as of Alpha 5 release. The pointer can move, and a physical left-click works, but that's it. I can not get tapping to respond as I could using the Mactel PPA packages with Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10). I added the attached FDI policy file for the touchpad, and manually added the module bcm5974 to my /etc/modules file, however, Xorg is not loading or is not recognizing the touchpad policies. This file worked on Intrepid. The custom bcm5974-dkms package from the Mactel PPA provided support in Intrepid. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

