Trackpad not detected in Powerbook G4

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Aug 4 08:19:54 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:33 +0200, Frank Arnold wrote:
> If this is a recent Powerbook it's a USB touchpad. A driver for this
> device is available through kernel 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 and higher -mm
> versions (drivers/usb/input/appletouch).

And in the Fedora 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 kernel.

> At the moment it's easier to build the kernel module by yourself:
> http://popies.net/atp/index.html

That or just run 'yum update'

> For extended functionality synaptics xorg driver is needed. So it
> would be nice to have an official synaptics package for ppc. Builds at
> least with a modified spec (ppc added to archs).
> But iirc is Paul the right person to ask... :)

File a bug against the synaptics package.

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dwmw2






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