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[Martin von Gagern <martin.vgagern@xxxxxxx>]

Doesn't work out of the box for me on current Karmic Beta, as Jim Rorie
claims. It used to work on Intrepid with some additional packages from
the Mactel Support PPA, but I deliberately dropped all PPA packages
after updating to Karmic, and even moved the fdi file I had created on
Intrepid. So my system should be a fair approximation of an "out of the
box" set-up. Hardware is a Macbook Pro 5,1.

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

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.