Hello All,

I have spent quite some time trying to get Ubuntu Hardy Heron running
smoothly in a VM on a Macbook.  I have tried this on both a white intel
macbook and solid state macbook air.  My main issue is getting the trackpad
to function like it would in OS X (two-finger scrolling, double-tap for
r-click, etc).  There is plenty of software/drivers out there to use fancy
gestures w/any synaptic touchpad in linux, so it shouldn't be such a problem
for me to just get some basic functionality.  I have tried installing
appletouch drivers on both machines, to no avail.  There are some missing
header files that I haven't been able to patch/workaround.  Also tried
playing with the xorg.conf file, where you can set various attributes for a
mouse/touchpad, but saw no change after rebooting.  I installed the VB Guest
Additions, which was enough to get Ubuntu running correctly in fullscreen,
but did nothing for the trackpad.  I have tried building my own VM and
booting from a cd, and also just importing a pre-made image.  Both attempts
lead to the same marginally functional VM.  Any advice would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,

Sam

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