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Intrepid: Mouse pointer frozen by default on bcm5974-based macbooks (#263451)

To: Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:13:13 +0200
Cc: mactel-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/263451

Patches for this bug are now in Andrew's -mm tree:

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/broken-out/bcm5974-064-minor-cleanups-for-scripts-checkpatchpl.patch
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/broken-out/bcm5974-064-finger-tracking-and-counting-improved-further.patch
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.27-rc5/2.6.27-rc5-mm1/broken-out/bcm5974-063-btn_touch-event-added-for-mousedev.patch

Cheers,
Henrik