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

Unfortunately the bcm5974-dkms PPA module is delivered as full text
source, not as a patch against some underlying kernel source. So when
comparing that file to the one in the current kernel, and as I don't
know the common ancestor, I don't know which modifications were
introduced in the kernel since then, and which were deliberate for the
dkms module. Looking at the kernel git history, I get the impression
that both drivers include the same kind of features, although not in the
same wording. Therefore the kernel driver seems recent enough to me.

I just found out that by simply adjusting some settings using synclient,
I could get tapping to work. So it seems that the default config simply
doesn't provide OS-X-like behaviour, and that furthermore the settings
from my own fdi file weren't used for some reason. Investigating that
now...

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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 “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
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.