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[cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well the code you forked is maintained by the guy who had put those modules in the PPA in the past. 

You can join the mattel-support team and add the updates to the PPA yourself if you'd like. 

 Ricky

On Oct 30, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Ben Davis <bendavis78@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A PPA would make sense only if there is additional support for hard- and software. If there is nothing to report and enhance, I see little reason to maintain a PPA.
> I would not keep it just for reminiscence.
> 
> I had to custom-compile dkms modules to get my trackpad to be recognized in Oneiric.  I have a macbook pro 8,3.  The hid, hid-apple, and bcm5974 modules did not support my trackpad model, which is known as wellspring 5A. You can see my patches here:
> 
> hid-dkms: https://github.com/bendavis78/hid-dkms/commit/da0226f71d460bd1fa303772abc035a879c12560
> hid-apple-dkms: https://github.com/bendavis78/hid-apple-dkms/commit/8a1e4e2534bebe4de9750f6ff1c281b3a3cbdd8a
> bcm5974-dkms: https://github.com/bendavis78/bcm5974-dkms/commit/4e44d55768b3cfbdddb41d9a4c4e2d86b0d96f6f 
> 
> (These were forked from http://bitmath.org/git/bcm5974-dkms.git)
> 
> A mactel-support PPA for oneiric would have been very useful in my case.
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