Re: Fwd: Re: [linux-usb-devel] usb initialization order(usbhid vs. appletouch)

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 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 ...

Soeren
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