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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
