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Comment 4 for bug 263451

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Henrik Rydberg (rydberg) wrote : Re: [PATCH] Intrepid: Mouse pointer frozen by default on bcm5974-based macbooks (#263451)

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