Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Fwd: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb initialization order (usbhid vs. appletouch) | | From | Soeren Sonnenburg <> | | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:47:02 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:05 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:43:31PM +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 05:12 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:27:46PM +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:55 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > > From: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> > > > > > > Subject: usbhid: Add HID_QUIRK_IGNORE_MOUSE flag > > > > > > > > > > > > Some HID devices by Apple have both keyboard and mouse interfaces; the > > > > > > keyboard interface is handled by usbhid, but the mouse (really > > > > > > touchpad) interface must be handled by the separate 'appletouch' > > > > > > driver. Using HID_QUIRK_IGNORE will make hiddev ignore both > > > > > > interfaces, therefore a new quirk flag to ignore only the mouse > > > > > > interface is required. > > > > > > The appletouch driver doesn't work properly on the MacBook > > > (non-Pro). It claims the device, and sort of functions, but is > > > basically unusable. > > > > > > If this goes in, and blacklists the MacBook touchpad too, Macbook > > > users will be unhappy. I think the MacBook and the -Pro use the same > > > IDs, though, which makes a problem for this patch until appletouch is > > > fixed on MacBooks. > > > > Can you please be a bit more specific on this ? Other sites mention it > > works http://bbbart.ulyssis.be/gentoomacbook/ ... what are you missing ? > > Sensitivity and such can all be tweaked in xorg.conf ... > > That's the first I've heard of it working on a vanilla MacBook. > I'm glad. I've only heard of failures before, some by people way > smarter than me.
[lots of problems with the appletouch driver]
OK I am asking this on the mactel-linux list... Lets see if these problems are gone and I find some happy mb appletouch user...
In the worst case this patch could be a config option or will have to be kept separate.
Soeren. -- Sometimes, there's a moment as you're waking, when you become aware of the real world around you, but you're still dreaming. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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