Trackpad not detected in Powerbook G4

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Thu Aug 4 11:03:37 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:19 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.
Cool

> > 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.

Fixed for rawhide for the installer I'd like to know what 

/proc/bus/input/devices shows on one of these boxes - to ensure I get
kudzu detecting it correctly and configured.

I'll also consider a FC4 update once I know it'll be configured
correctly with s-c-display --reconfig

Paul





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