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[Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems like there's a lot of noise on this bug; for what it's worth,
I'm only really interested in one of the things mentioned in #38
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/337935/comments/38>, "Can't click
and hold with thumb while dragging with another finger.".  I have a
MacBook 5,3; on Karmic I have this problem and in the Lucid alpha the
pointer jumps around so much in the live CD (even when I'm not touching
the trackpad) that I couldn't do an install.

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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: 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.