Synaptics touchpad doesn't work on a mac book pro

Rafael Espíndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 21:50:04 UTC 2007


> Support for Geyser IV was added around mid November. Your product ID
> should be 0x021B, according to appletouch.c.
I am downloading linus git tree and I will try to port the patch to
the fedora 2.6.20 kernel.

> Then I must say sorry. I should have read the Gentoo page entirely.
> There's indeed the problem that usbhid starts the device in legacy mouse
> mode, and appletouch can't claim the device afterwards. So usbhid should
> be prevented to handle these devices.
>
> But we can stop here. This problem is known:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208721
>
> Further discussion should go there... or not, because it's simply
> waiting for _someone_ to work that out ;)
I will post the patch in there.

> Frank

Thanks,
Rafael




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