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Mac Book Touchpad Driver for Fedora 15+

by Harald Hoyer — last modified Mar 03, 2011 12:47 PM
xf86-input-multitouch for Fedora 15+ for review

If you own a Mac Book with a bcm5974 touchpad, you might know that it is a PITA to drag and drop with the synaptics driver. If you reach the end of the pad, you cannot drag any further and adding a second finger, just emulates the right mouse button. So here is the solution, the multitouch driver from http://bitmath.org/code/multitouch

I created an rpm, which is for review here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681826

Just rebuild the src.rpm and install the resulting package and you are ready to restart the X server. And if you want to review the package, please do so! :-)

What I use

Avatar Posted by Jon Masters at Mar 31, 2011 06:55 PM
I hacked up the older kernel driver to add MT-like behavior, based on code someone else posted. It's horrible, but it works unmodified with any X server.

forked

Avatar Posted by eelco at Apr 18, 2011 02:26 PM
Love the driver, but this fork looks even better:
https://github.com/BlueDragonX/xf86-input-mtrack

Are you considering this code as well?

Trying

Avatar Posted by eelco at Apr 18, 2011 02:27 PM
I'm trying it as we speak. As a result of installing this package, i lost the Touchpad tab on the mouse settings dialog. Is there an alternative?

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