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[Ed K <ekohlwey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to me like blacklisting usbhid is a poor workaround... wouldn't
that prevent you  from using external mice, etc. in the usual way (ie,
plug it in and it works)?

Would it be possible for mactel support to continue to provide a patched
usbhid kernel module (as I assume the case had been prior to the patch
that removed the usbhid dependency?). That seems like an appropriate
workaround until there is movement on the kernel end. If the issue is
simply getting someone to help maintain a new package, is there any
mentoring support available?

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[Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 touchpad not fully supported (Alpha 5 of Jaunty)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337935
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Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in XOrg-Driver-Synaptics - synaptics driver for XOrg: Invalid
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: xorg

The touchpad for MacBook 5.1 is not supported completely in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) as of Alpha 5 release. The pointer can move, and a physical left-click works, but that's it. I can not get tapping to respond as I could using the Mactel PPA packages with Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10). I added the attached FDI policy file for the touchpad, and manually added the module bcm5974 to my /etc/modules file, however, Xorg is not loading or is not recognizing the touchpad policies. This file worked on Intrepid. The custom bcm5974-dkms package from the Mactel PPA provided support in Intrepid.