Synaptics touchpad not detected on MacBook Santa Rosa

[Casey Hendley]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

According to Xorg.0.log, the touchpad on my Santa Rosa-platform MacBook (2.2GHz Core 2) is not detected at all. This leads to none of the extended functionality working (I cannot right-click at all).

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

This could be bug #173411.

Is this hardy?

[Casey Hendley (elcasey)]

It's Hardy, but I don't think this is the same model touchpad. NONE of the gestures work and this pad didn't exist in the Dapper or Edgy days. The trackpads on the previous generation (non-Santa Rosa) MacBooks work fine. The newest do not.

[Chris Irwin (chrisirwin)]

Can you attach the output of lspci?

[Chris Irwin (chrisirwin)]

This is likely a duplicate of bug #162090. lspci will confirm or deny this.

Unfortunately this device does not get auto-configured nicely (not sure if this is resolvable), but manually inserting an xorg.conf entry gets the touchpad to a working state with the 8.14 Hardy kernel.

[Ricky Campbell (cyberdork33)]

Additional technical information might be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3d3168e50802141428h6e5c2d41y37e125a3cdfa214f%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=mactel-linux-users
Can anyone confirm similar error messages?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

configuration issue, will be fixed before next alpha.