MAC Magic Mouse on Ubuntu 9.10

[schmidberger@gmx.at]

Hi,

I have a MacBookPro (5.3) and installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it. Most works great, nearly all out of the box. Only the new MAC Magic Mouse works not correctly.

Bluetooth detects the mouse and assigns it as 'Apple Wireless Mouse'

There I have the following problems:

* No support for the multi-touch face
* bumpy moving cursor.

Any solutions? Any third-party support?

Thanks

[madu]

Hello,

I also couldn't get the magic mouse to work.
Right & left buttons and thats it. No touch scroll or anything.
Tried with BTNX and it also didn't detect any. Went back to using my old mouse. The middle click is still more useful than what the Magic mouse can offer IMO.

[linuxopjemac]

I just got it to work on my ancient PowerBook G4, much to my surprise.

You mean the Magic Mouse under Linux on your PB G4? If so, can you please tell us what you did ?

[schmidberger@gmx.at]

please provide more information how the Magic Mouse (including multi-touch) works at the G4

[Jay2Cee]

Yes, I'm interested in this, too. My experience with the Magic Mouse was, that it can be connected as bluetooth HID device and that moving and the left and right clock works out of the box. But I found no way to get multitouch or even scrolling to work.

[davim]

check this out -> http://github.com/entrope/linux-magicmouse

[Jay2Cee]

Compilation and loading the module with a patched kernel works fine. I will test the functionality with a Magic Mouse of a friend on friday.

[davim]

I've created a bug report on launchpad to see if this gets included in next ubuntu relese:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/512773

[Jay2Cee]

The kernel module works and enables scrolling and middle clock for the magic mouse. But scrolling is not very smooth, yet.

[mmans]

Hi!

I'm playing with the entrope-magic-mouse driver with ubuntu 9.10.
First I compiled a new kernel with all of the 3 patches. The new hid-module was
compiled into the kernel and my magic mouse learned to scroll in ubuntu :p

Now I compiled a new kernel with only the first 2 patches. After starting the new kernel
I compiled the module. After that I copied the hid-magicmouse.ko file into /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc6.
Then I ran depmod -a.

lsmod is showing this:
Module Size Used by
hid_magicmouse 5719 0
hidp 14296 1
binfmt_misc 7486 1
--snip--

But I cannot get the system to use the module... How can I tell ubuntu to use the hid_magicmouse module?

Thanks for any help!

[Jay2Cee]

Have you tried to load the module with modprobe?
I'm using a patched kernel (all three patches) an compiled to driver as module (not directly into the kernel). This works fine.

[linuxopjemac]

if you want to it loaded at boot, I guess that simply adding


hid_magicmouse

to /etc/modules should do the trick

[Nohtanhoj]

I gave this a try yesterday when I picked up my Magic Mouse... After enabling Bluetooth, Karmic recognized the mouse right away and both click functions work, however scrolling does not.

I don't think multi-touch gestures will ever work on Linux, since the Mac has its own firmware for software such as Preview, iPhoto, etc etc...

However, we should be able to get scrolling working. Has anyone submitted this as a problem to get it included in the next distro?

[Darrena]

Has anyone successfully built this and used the mouse scroll against 2.6.32? I successfully patched and built 2.6.32 but scrolling doesn't work with the module loaded.

[mmans]

if you want to it loaded at boot, I guess that simply adding


hid_magicmouseto /etc/modules should do the trick

Thanx linuxopjemac (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=468914), that was the missing part!
Now it works fine!

[Jay2Cee]

However, we should be able to get scrolling working. Has anyone submitted this as a problem to get it included in the next distro?Read the above posts!


Has anyone successfully built this and used the mouse scroll against 2.6.32? I successfully patched and built 2.6.32 but scrolling doesn't work with the module loaded.I have just tried 2.6.31.

[davim]

I gave this a try yesterday when I picked up my Magic Mouse... After enabling Bluetooth, Karmic recognized the mouse right away and both click functions work, however scrolling does not.

I don't think multi-touch gestures will ever work on Linux, since the Mac has its own firmware for software such as Preview, iPhoto, etc etc...

However, we should be able to get scrolling working. Has anyone submitted this as a problem to get it included in the next distro?
Yes:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/512773

and the multi-touch does work, this driver detects the the multi-touch events now all that we need is an application to map the gestures to actions like this applications do in OS X:

http://magicprefs.com/
http://wcrawford.org/2008/02/28/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-my-cell/
http://blog.boastr.net/

[matchett808]

wow, i was considering buying one of these....roll on the 25th...i definately am! lol

[Kaos2K]

Hi. I have and imac 27" i7 and i was able to install ubuntu (after solved some video problems).

Now i'm triying to get the sound work (it's only audible via hearphones since i installed alsa backport but internal speakers don't work) and the Apple Magic mouse.

The magic mouse works well but no multitouch os scrolling at all. Could you guide me how compite the kernel with that 3 archives of the patch? I never compiled a linux kernel or patch it.

Thanks in advance.

[Jay2Cee]

First, install the required tools:

sudo apt-get install fakeroot build-essential
sudo apt-get install crash kexec-tools makedumpfile kernel-wedge
sudo apt-get build-dep linux
sudo apt-get install git-core libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

Then checkout the magicmouse git repository as well as the kernel sources:

git clone http://github.com/entrope/linux-magicmouse.git
cd linux-magicmouse
git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git linux-source
cd linux-source

After that, you have to switch to the current kernel release (currently 2.6.31-19.56, see debian.master/changelog):

git checkout Ubuntu-2.6.31-19.56

Now you are ready to apply the magicmouse patches:

patch -p1 < ../0001-Export-hid_register_report.patch
patch -p1 < ../0002-Add-a-hid_ll_driver.hid_set_report-function.patch
patch -p1 < ../0003-Add-a-device-driver-for-the-Apple-Magic-Mouse.patch

Create a magicmouse flavour, clean the build directory and regenerate the config file:

cp debian.master/config/i386/config.flavour.generic debian.master/config/i386/config.flavour.magicmouse
cp debian.master/config/amd64/config.flavour.generic debian.master/config/amd64/config.flavour.magicmouse
fakeroot debian/rules clean
debian.master/scripts/misc/kernelconfig oldconfig

Verify that the magicmouse driver is included in the config:

grep MAGICMOUSE debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu

You should see the module name with an "m":

CONFIG_HID_MAGICMOUSE=m

After that you have to copy some abi files:

cp debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/i386/generic debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/i386/magicmouse
cp debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/i386/generic.modules debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/i386/magicmouse.modules
cp debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/amd64/generic debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/amd64/magicmouse
cp debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/amd64/generic.modules debian.master/abi/2.6.31-17.54/amd64/magicmouse.modules

We have to add the new flavour to the build process, therefore open the file "debian.master/scripts/misc/getabis" in your favourite text editor and change the following lines

getall amd64 generic server
getall i386 generic generic-pae 386
to

getall amd64 generic server magicmouse
getall i386 generic generic-pae 386 magicmouse

Two more files to edit, open "debian.master/rules.d/i386.mk" and change

flavours = generic generic-pae 386
to

flavours = generic generic-pae 386 magicmouse

Than open "debian.master/rules.d/amd64.mk" and change

flavours = generic server
to

flavours = generic server magicmouse

Last step before you you can start the build, create a description for your flavour:

cp debian.master/control.d/vars.generic debian.master/control.d/vars.magicmouse
Open the file "debian.master/control.d/vars.magicmouse" and change the target line to something like this:

target="Modified for Apples Magic Mouse."

Finally you are ready to build your new kernel (this takes a while...):

fakeroot debian/rules clean
skipabi=true skipmodule=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-magicmouse
skipabi=true skipmodule=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep

If everything works fine, you should get some Debian packages in the parent directory. You have to install both header packages and the image itself:

cd ..
dpkg -i linux-headers*.deb linux-image*.deb

Now reboot and hopefully get your mouse working :)

[davim]

Thanks for your great howto :)

[Kaos2K]

Wow, what a howto :D. I'll try it. Thank you :)

[Darrena]

For those with a recent iMac (10,1) the reason the Magic mouse doesn't work is the Bluetooth module. I plugged in an external Bluetooth module and was able to pair my mouse and use all the features.

Prior to putting in the external module Linux did not detect any Bluetooth devices.

[Kaos2K]

My Apple Mouse works out of the box. The only thing that is not working is scrolling and multitouching

[davim]

Is there a way to adjust the scroll speed or the touch sensitivity? My magicmouse scroll is just to fast to be usable :(

[Willberto]

I get the following error when I try to build it running this command:

skipabi=true skipmodule=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-magicmouse

......
CC drivers/hid/hid-input.o
CC drivers/hid/hidraw.o
/home/will/linux-magicmouse/linux-source/drivers/hid/hidraw.c: In function 'hidraw_write':
/home/will/linux-magicmouse/linux-source/drivers/hid/hidraw.c:137: error: too many arguments to function 'dev->hid_output_raw_report'
make[5]: *** [drivers/hid/hidraw.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/hid] Error 2
make[3]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
CC net/ipv4/tcp_output.o
CC net/ipv4/tcp_timer.o

......

CC net/xfrm/xfrm_sysctl.o
LD net/xfrm/built-in.o
LD net/built-in.o
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/home/will/linux-magicmouse/linux-source/debian/stamps/stamp-build-magicmouse] Error 2
make: *** [binary-magicmouse] Error 2

Does anyone know how I might fix this? I double checked all the previous steps.

[jdong]

Note that now there's patches 0001 through 0004 in git. Make sure you've applied all of them.

[Willberto]

Note that now there's patches 0001 through 0004 in git. Make sure you've applied all of them.

I installed all four, I take it they should be run in order 1 through 4?

[Darrena]

My Apple Mouse works out of the box. The only thing that is not working is scrolling and multitouching


Right, you need to install the driver discussed on this thread. If you have an iMac 10,1 you will probably need an external Bluetooth adapter.

[Darrena]

Note that now there's patches 0001 through 0004 in git. Make sure you've applied all of them.

Did you get them to apply cleanly on .31 or .32? Or did you have to apply them by hand using a text editor?

[Kaos2K]

Right, you need to install the driver discussed on this thread. If you have an iMac 10,1 you will probably need an external Bluetooth adapter.

Where can i see my iMac version? It's a 27" i7 manufactured Week 5 of 2010

[Darrena]

Where can i see my iMac version? It's a 27" i7 manufactured Week 5 of 2010

Then you have the same version I do. If you start the Gnome Bluetooth utility does it see an adapter on your system?

[Kaos2K]

Nope, i can't see any adapters listed. Then.. that means i need to purchase and usb bluetooth module to get the Magic Mouse multi-touch and scrolling capabilities running using this tutorial?

[Darrena]

Nope, i can't see any adapters listed. Then.. that means i need to purchase and usb bluetooth module to get the Magic Mouse multi-touch and scrolling capabilities running using this tutorial?

In my case that is what I had to do, I had an old one floating around that worked for me.

[jdong]

They apply cleanly on .31 but not on .32 -- that takes a bit of hand tweaking and still work in progress here.


Note with Apple's built-in bluetooth receivers and OS X: If you've ever paired your bluetooth device with OS X before, it seems to cause its BT adapter to remember the device across reboots (i.e. that's how GRUB accepts bluetooth keyboard input). This seems to interfere with Ubuntu's pairing procedure.


As a workaround, try from OS X unpairing all your bluetooth input devices, boot into Ubuntu to play with getting Bluetooth paired and working, then boot back into OS X and repair it there. Once Ubuntu is paired, it doesn't matter what you do in OS X. Otherwise, it can be a nightmare.

[schmidberger@gmx.at]

Several FAILS in patch and in the end error in the pkg compilation!
Ubuntu-2.6.31-19.56

Solutions?

patch -p1 < ../0001-Bluetooth-Keep-a-copy-of-each-HID-device-s-report-de.patch
patching file net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 698 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 745.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 793 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 891 (offset -5 lines).
1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c.rej
patching file net/bluetooth/hidp/hidp.h

[Kaos2K]

They apply cleanly on .31 but not on .32 -- that takes a bit of hand tweaking and still work in progress here.


Note with Apple's built-in bluetooth receivers and OS X: If you've ever paired your bluetooth device with OS X before, it seems to cause its BT adapter to remember the device across reboots (i.e. that's how GRUB accepts bluetooth keyboard input). This seems to interfere with Ubuntu's pairing procedure.


As a workaround, try from OS X unpairing all your bluetooth input devices, boot into Ubuntu to play with getting Bluetooth paired and working, then boot back into OS X and repair it there. Once Ubuntu is paired, it doesn't matter what you do in OS X. Otherwise, it can be a nightmare.

Thanks for the tip mate ;)

[Darrena]

They apply cleanly on .31 but not on .32 -- that takes a bit of hand tweaking and still work in progress here.


Note with Apple's built-in bluetooth receivers and OS X: If you've ever paired your bluetooth device with OS X before, it seems to cause its BT adapter to remember the device across reboots (i.e. that's how GRUB accepts bluetooth keyboard input). This seems to interfere with Ubuntu's pairing procedure.


As a workaround, try from OS X unpairing all your bluetooth input devices, boot into Ubuntu to play with getting Bluetooth paired and working, then boot back into OS X and repair it there. Once Ubuntu is paired, it doesn't matter what you do in OS X. Otherwise, it can be a nightmare.

Ok in that case I will build it against .31 and build ALSA 1.0.22 by hand as well.

I did try unpairing it in OSX but it did not seem to help, though I could be doing something wrong.

[jdong]

Ok in that case I will build it against .31 and build ALSA 1.0.22 by hand as well.

I did try unpairing it in OSX but it did not seem to help, though I could be doing something wrong.

Make sure in the PIN options to set the PIN to 0000 as well. Automatic is not as automatic as one would expect, unfortunately.

[davim]

Several FAILS in patch and in the end error in the pkg compilation!
Ubuntu-2.6.31-19.56

Solutions?

patch -p1 < ../0001-Bluetooth-Keep-a-copy-of-each-HID-device-s-report-de.patch
patching file net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 698 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 745.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 793 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 891 (offset -5 lines).
1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c.rej
patching file net/bluetooth/hidp/hidp.h
I'm getting the same fails...

[WriHelp]

So far no, the magic mouse does not have a standard way to provide scrolling information. As best as I can discover, the pairing process checks the "PNP Information" profile to find the Manufacturer and Product IDs (to match Apple/Magic Mouse) then sends some HID Feature reports to enable the special features of the touch surface and set the device name. Then, the mouse sends reports of the finger touch data and I don't know what they mean. Going from the HID descriptor, it may be that there is an array of sensors on the surface of the device that just show finger positions.
Sorry I don't have a mouse or a mac (or ubuntu :) so I can't provide any more information about this and am unable to experiment at this time.
I suspect the driver will need to interpret the sensor array data manually for single and multi-touch and generate its own 'scroll' and 'pan' events, along with middle-click if required and any other kind of swipes..

[Darrena]

The patch author respun the patches for 2.6.32, they applied clean against the Lucid Kernel and I am building it now for testing.

[davim]

this should be inculded in Lucid by dfault!

[jdong]

Well that would be nice, but looking at the patches, they change some parts of the Bluetooth stack's API in ways not agreed by mainline kernel maintainers (some are from the bluetooth maintainer, so could indicate it will be in the future)....

This is definitely a tricky one to include in Ubuntu by default as it somewhat pushes the grey area of what distribution maintainers should and shouldn't modify for their kernel.

[jdong]

Ok, was able to build a stock Lucid kernel with the latest magicmouse patches and it certainly does work! Left, middle, right click and scrolling.

[dark_harmonics]

Cant somebody publish some compiled debs for newbs? I think i can follow this but many people will not want to bother. Thanks to anybody who made the patches! Really I'm grateful that we even have a solution.

Edit: Realized that this is a Kernel Update - Thats just painful.

Edit of Edit: Having similar failures in applying the patches. Perhaps the author's build environment has something not listed in the tutorial posted earlier in this thread.

[davim]

I understand!

Another option could be that the guys from the Macintel Team would include a patched kernel in their PPA repository...

[davim]

Cant somebody publish some compiled debs for newbs? I think i can follow this but many people will not want to bother. Thanks to anybody who made the patches! Really I'm grateful that we even have a solution.

Edit: Realized that this is a Kernel Update - Thats just painful.

Edit of Edit: Having similar failures in applying the patches. Perhaps the author's build environment has something not listed in the tutorial posted earlier in this thread.
when the tutorial was made the patches were for an older version of the kernel and now they only apply to the kernel v2.6.32.8
The steps to compile it are basically the same you only have to get the right kernel version and apply all the patches (there are 9 patches now).

[jdong]

Indeed the same instructions apply -- and as mentioned, this is a kernel update and at this point even requires that you patch a development release's unfrozen kernel tree. If you don't feel comfortable with the process of patching and building such kernels, I would not recommend using such kernels.

[dark_harmonics]

I actually did get it to work, but regular users will never get that done. Without the guide it would've taken me a long time to fight through documentation to figure all that out.

[honkenet]

Maybe anyone "cool" can just upload a compiled Kernel anywere.

That would be great, so even newbs can Use it.

[mmans]

Maybe anyone "cool" can just upload a compiled Kernel anywere.

That would be great, so even newbs can Use it.

I uploaded my patched kernel here: http://www.filesavr.com/ubuntu-910magicmouse-kernelamd64tar
(If somebody knows a better place, shoot me :))
It is a ubuntu 9.10 amd64 kernel, version 2.6.31-20.57.

Download the file into a directory and do:


tar -xzvf ubuntu-9.10.magicmouse-kernel.amd64.tar.gz
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers*.deb linux-image*.deb


Reboot, choose the new kernel in GRUB and start scrolling :D

[linuxopjemac]

Can I host it on my site ?

[mmans]

Can I host it on my site ?

Yes, of course!

[jdong]

Just a polite reminder/nag that when hosting compiled software, make sure you keep GPL-compliance in mind! (i.e. being able to provide the source either on-demand or for download)

[linuxopjemac]

thanks for the tip. I would have to provide the source code of that kernel then ?

[honkenet]

thanks^^

But im am getteing

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

when unpacking, is there something missing?

Without unzipping, there comes

XXX-@py-fjfjfj:~/projects/magicmousekernel$ tar -xvf ubuntu-9.10.magicmouse-kernel.amd64.tar.gz
linux-headers-2.6.31-20_2.6.31-20.57_all.deb
linux-headers-2.6.31-20-magicmouse_2.6.31-20.57_amd64.deb
linux-image-2.6.31-20-magicmouse_2.6.31-20.57_amd64.deb
tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
tar: Nicht behebbarer Fehler: Programmabbruch.
XXX-@py-fjfjfj:~/projects/magicmousekernel$

The 3 tar lines seem to mean something like:

tar: unexpected end in archive
tar: unexpected end in archive
tar: not repairable error: Program abbort

[mmans]

thanks^^

But im am getteing

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors


Woops... seems like I made a regular tar-archive, without gzip. Sorry for that!



when unpacking, is there something missing?

Without unzipping, there comes


Thats strange. I can unpack my original archive without errors. I think the archive is
corrupted while uploading to the file-share-site.

Maybe I can send the archives directly to 'linuxopjemac' tomorrow?! I could
also make an archive of my kernel-source-folder where I compiled this kernel.
Is this possible?

[honkenet]

Can you please reup ist somewere? maybe the patched kernelsource too.

[linuxopjemac]

Please be patient. I will host the file as soon as I can....

[linuxopjemac]

Ok, I uploaded the new kernel. It can be downloaded here:
http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=63&p=83#p83

[cuchipepepe]

How about a 32-bit version for those of us trying to use the Magic Mouse on a different architecture? Thanks in advance.

[Q007]

Hi, thanks very much for this.

I'm computer literate, but very new to Ubuntu. I've just downloaded the two halves of the kernel gzip, used
cat linux-ubuntu9.10-kernel_amd64-magicmouse.tar.gz0* | tar -xzvf - to unpackage and tried to use
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers*.deb linux-image*.deb to install the unpackaged .deb headers and image files.

It doesnt work, because it complains that the architecture is wrong: amd64 vs my i386. I guess that's reasonable.

Would you be so kind as to supply the i386 one too?

Many thanks in advance.

Q

PS - I'm on a quest to get sound working too. I noticed this page: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=1a5ba2e9fc7999b8de2a71c7e7b 9f58d752c05e4 provides a kernel patch to resolve sound issues for the 27 inch imac. You guys seem to be all over kernel patching, and I know some of you are interested in getting sound to work (from other threads), so I thought I'd throw in the link. Would it make sense to incorporate that patch into this compiled kernel as well? Just a newb suggestion.

Edit: I've succeded on my quest for sound without using a kernel patch. Details here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8849837&postcount=22

[honkenet]

The x64 magicmouse kernel works perfectly.
And again i hate gnome for the missing support to change the scrollspeed^^

[linuxopjemac]

And again i hate gnome for the missing support to change the scrollspeed^^

can gsynaptics be used to something like you want ? Or does it only affect the touchpad..

[linuxopjemac]

Q007:
The sound patch can only be applied to 2.6.33. It can't be done for the 2.6.31 kernel we are on in Karmic.

I just read that Lucid Lynx will be on 2.6.32. There will be a possibility in this release to have 2.6.33 backported to Lucid Lynx for certified platforms.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-December/029653.html

[linuxopjemac]

The 32-bits version kernel is coming....stay tuned....

[mmans]

The 32-bits version kernel is coming....stay tuned....

I compiled the 32 bit kernel and just sended the file to linuxopjemac.
He will host the files on his site soon!

Marco

[linuxopjemac]

The 32-bits patched kernel can be found here (http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=63&p=85#p85), thanks to Marco :)

[Q007]

Thanks very much for the help you're giving.

I downloaded the 32 bit versions, unpackaged fine. Dpkg went fine as well.

Restarted, selected the magic mouse version, and Ubuntu starts up fine. However, scrolling doesn't seem to work yet. Is there something else I need to do? Left and right buttons work.

Result of 'uname -r' is 2.6.31-20-magicmouse

I'd gotten rid of the previous 64bit versions beforehand.

Q

[Q007]

I've tried adding hid_magicmouse to the /etc/modules file, and then restarted.

Still no scrolling.

I have the 27 inch imac, do I need an external bluetooth module to get this working? Someone mentioned it earlier in the thread. If so, why is that exactly?

Q

[jdong]

Are you sure the kernel module is loaded? (does it show up in lsmod)

[Q007]

Yes, it shows up in lsmod.

BTW. I was able to get sound working on my 27 imac in Ubuntu: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8849837&postcount=22

On the magic mouse kernel, sound is gone again. To get sound working before, I needed to install the alsa backports, and in Synaptic, it shows a bunch of backports modules for different kernel versions, up to 2.6.31-19.21, which is what I have installed. Since the magic mouse module is 2.6.31-20, would that be why sound is not working - because I dont have the alsa backports modules for 2.6.31-20?

Hope this is not getting off the track,

Q

[Q007]

Well, I updated the alsa backport modules and sound still doesn't work. I have no idea what is going on with sound in this kernel version. See my post (#25) on the sound thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8855361#post8855361

[linuxopjemac]

I will try to compile a kernel in 32-bits on a Mac now. I don't think it matters though, but we will see...

Edit: I tried but I run into an error. I need some help from either Marco or Jay2Cee.

[cuchipepepe]

The 32 bit kernel posted by linuxopjemac via Marco worked on my Asus EEE PC 1005HA. The scrolling is there. You need to click on the page/document first, but then the scrolling happens. Thanks a lot!

[Q007]

Hmmm, I wonder why it doesn't work on my imac 27?

I went and reinstalled the 64 bit version of Ubuntu and tried the 64 but magic mouse kernel from Marco. Same situation. No sound either, though the other 2.6.31-20-generic kernel works with sound.

I think I've exhausted all I can think of. I guess I'll wait and see if the next released kernels fix it up.

Q

[mmans]

Hmmm, I wonder why it doesn't work on my imac 27?

I went and reinstalled the 64 bit version of Ubuntu and tried the 64 but magic mouse kernel from Marco. Same situation. No sound either, though the other 2.6.31-20-generic kernel works with sound.

I think I've exhausted all I can think of. I guess I'll wait and see if the next released kernels fix it up.

Q

Just a guess, but maybe the bluetooth controller is not 100% supported...

[linuxopjemac]

I compiled a kernel myself now on a MacBook for 32-bits Koala. Try it out here (http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=63&p=91#p91).

[Darrena]

Just a guess, but maybe the bluetooth controller is not 100% supported...

See my post earlier on this topic, the bluetooth controller does not work and I had to use a dongle with my wifes new iMac

[nemesuisse]

Any news on that module?

I tried (and succeded) to compile a custom Linux 2.6.32-9-magicmouse kernel. Everything works fine, no error, module is loaded at start, mouse detected but yet unusable.
The only thing I noticed is that the mouse doesn't always get connected in the bluetooth manager. It's detected, but I only got the "connected" icon one in a while (and even then it's not working)
I'm on Ubuntu 9.10

Edit: Finally got it working using "blueman" bluetooth manager rather than the default one. :D

[davim]

It's working for me with no problems, has anyone applied the xy scroll patch? Does anyone know if this is going to be included in the next kernel release?

[dark_harmonics]

It's working for me with no problems, has anyone applied the xy scroll patch? Does anyone know if this is going to be included in the next kernel release?

I dont think this will be in the next release. For those trying to compile this yourselves i recommend using the master kernel thread and the git repo together. Here is the procedure that works for me.

At a terminal
First download and unpack the patches


cd ~
git clone git://github.com/entrope/linux-magicmouse.git
cd linux-magicmouse
Now lets follow the Master Kernel Thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311158) for the next few steps. These steps are taken directly from that thread and credit for them goes to the author.
To download the packages we need to build it.


sudo apt-get install build-essential bin86 kernel-package libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev wget libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

Now we are going to download the kernel and unpack it and change to the directory:



git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git linux-source
cd linux-sourceNow we apply the patches for the magic mouse. This specific part may change as they change the patches so you might have to type patch -p1 <../0001<tab> for each patch so that it picks up the right names.



patch -p1 < ../0001-Bluetooth-Implement-raw-output-support-for-HIDP-laye.patch
patch -p1 < ../0002-Bluetooth-Use-the-control-channel-for-raw-HID-report.patch
patch -p1 < ../0003-HID-make-raw-reports-possible-for-both-feature-and-o.patch
patch -p1 < ../0004-Bluetooth-Fix-PTR_ERR-return-of-wrong-pointer-in-hid.patch
patch -p1 < ../0005-Bluetooth-Keep-a-copy-of-each-HID-device-s-report-de.patch
patch -p1 < ../0006-HID-Export-hid_register_report.patch
patch -p1 < ../0007-HID-add-a-device-driver-for-the-Apple-Magic-Mouse.patch
patch -p1 < ../0008-HID-fix-up-Kconfig-entry-for-MagicMouse.patch
patch -p1 < ../0009-HID-magicmouse-coding-style-and-probe-failure-fixes.patch
So now we have all the patches that we need lets return to building the kernel from the Master Kernel Thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311158):

Now import your current kernel configuration and get your current kernel options:


cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config && yes "" | make oldconfig
Configure the kernel:
Note: If you have a wireless internet device, you must enable your wireless drivers in the kernel. The easiest way to do this is to press Ctrl + F and search for your wireless device module name.


make xconfig
Inside the configuration window do a search (ctrl +f) for magicmouse and enable that module. Save and close to create the new config.

Finally, it's time to build the kernel:



make-kpkg clean
Then this:



sudo INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=3 make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-mk kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
Install the .deb files.


cd .. && sudo dpkg -i linux*2.6.32*.deb
Finally lets add the magicmouse module to your /etc/modules so that it is loaded at startup.


sudo echo hid_magicmouse>>/etc/modules
Reboot and enjoy!

[jdong]

Please use the kernel build instructions written by Jay2Cee in comment #20.

Building vanilla kernels is completely unsupported, and will result in reduced hardware support, bugfix regressions, and the loss of the AppArmor security framework and other Ubuntu-specific additions to the kernel.

[nemesuisse]

Can someone help with scrolling speed or accel settings?
Edit: see below

[nemesuisse]

Finaly, I found something working:

You can edit hid-magicmouse.c and change settings here:

/* If requested, emulate a scroll wheel by detecting small
* vertical touch motions along the middle of the mouse.
*/
if (emulate_scroll_wheel &&
middle_button_start < x && x < middle_button_stop) {
static const int accel_profile[] = {
256, 228, 192, 160, 128, 96, 64, 32,
};
I tried setting new values, higher or lower, and found a fast setting which is:

static const int accel_profile[] = {
160, 80, 40, 20,
}
It seems that acceleration is a ratio between first and last number.
the number of... numbers is the number of times you have to scroll to get full speed
So in my settings, after 4 scrolls, each scroll gives me 8 times the normal scrolling

Then run


make
rmmod hid-magicmouse
insmod magicmod.ko
to make, and reload your driver with the new settings

This info is completely empirical and is given without any guarantee :D

[kosumi68]

I understand!

Another option could be that the guys from the Macintel Team would include a patched kernel in their PPA repository...

The kernel team is considering some changes to the build (compiling hid as a module) that should make it possible to provide a magicmouse dkms package in the mactel PPA.

You might also be interested in the multitouch driver thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334696

[dark_harmonics]

Please use the kernel build instructions written by Jay2Cee in comment #20.

Building vanilla kernels is completely unsupported, and will result in reduced hardware support, bugfix regressions, and the loss of the AppArmor security framework and other Ubuntu-specific additions to the kernel.

How about if i just change the kernel get line to :


git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git linux-source
cd linux-source

[jdong]

How about if i just change the kernel get line to :


git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git linux-source
cd linux-source


That's a little bit better, but generating kernel packages (.debs) according to Ubuntu conventions does have advantages in that APT is aware of your kernel. If you just make oldconfig / install, you do not get this.


I realize there are a few more steps involved with making an Ubuntu kernel the Ubuntu way, but it is worth the effort to do so.

[dpagek]

When I get to the part where I have to install the patches it says:

bash: ../0001-Export-hid_register_report.patch: No such file or directory

[dark_harmonics]

That's a little bit better, but generating kernel packages (.debs) according to Ubuntu conventions does have advantages in that APT is aware of your kernel. If you just make oldconfig / install, you do not get this.


I realize there are a few more steps involved with making an Ubuntu kernel the Ubuntu way, but it is worth the effort to do so.

Yes i wasn't attempting to be lazy but rather to just put it in terms that I understand. I guess I like to fully understand what I am running on my system. Thanks for the important information and if anybody has doubts just use the "more correct" post earlier in this thread as jdong suggests.

[dark_harmonics]

When I get to the part where I have to install the patches it says:
dpagek you will need to just put patch -p1 < ..\0001<tab> where <tab> is that you hit the tab key to make it guess the rest of the path.

[drelig]

Thanks to everyone who have helped make the magic mouse work in Ubuntu this far. I used the instructions in message #83 with version 2.6.32-8 to compile my kernel despite the warnings. My system is working mostly fine, alltough I get some warnings in startup and suspend doesn't work. I'll try the instructions in post #20 when I have some time, but of course it would be awesome to get the patches to official releases as soon as possible.

Initially I just wanted to read and scroll web pages simultaneously and I spent quite much time tuning different smooth scrolling plugins for Firefox. Eventually it was clear that with the normal mouse the only right way is the traditional scrolling with steps. When the mouse sends it's scrolling event there is no time start any animations, but the end result of scrolling has to be shown immediately. To solve this problem I needed hardware that is able to send more detailed information about the scrolling and the magic mouse was my choice.

In Firefox there is already implemented pixel scrolling, probably because mac people have come to the same conclusion already some time ago. Writing about:config to the address bar opens the settings and setting moousewheel.withnokey.action to value 4 takes so called pixel scrolling in use. You might want to change the size of scroll step as well, for that set the mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to false and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines to the size of scroll step in pixels. There are similar values in mousewheel.horizscroll also.

I used the module from http://github.com/juuva/linux-magicmouse/ as a starting point. I found the acceleration behave little bit oddly, when I was trying to scroll page slowly with long finger movements, which resulted to accelerating speed. Instead I calculated step size little bit differently to get more responsive feeling.

For vertical scrolling:

//step = step / accel_profile[msc->scroll_accel_y];
step = step * step * step / (1024*128 );

And little bit slower for horizontal:

//step = step / accel_profile[msc->scroll_accel_x];
step = step * step * step / (1024*1024);

Unfortunately there is no setting in Gnome for scrolling speed of other applications. I'll try to edit and compile the gtk to make it slower, but of course this isn't very optimal solution. Somehow we should send usual line scroll events once in a while for old applications and more frequent special pixel scrolling events for applications like Firefox that support it. Currently I'm using step size of 3 pixels in Firefox. This is a compromise of getting almost smooth and responsive scrolling in Firefox and still being able to control scrolling in other applications with very cautious movements.

I have also started to write some code for more versatile use of touchpad. When sitting on a couch, it would be nice to keep the mouse in hand like a remote control and move the cursor with the thumb on the touchpad. Obviously kernel module isn't right place to do this kind of things, but I have no idea how to get the touch reports elsewhere.

[urbanape]

Anyone tried these with a lucid kernel?

[TheCoda]

>Anyone tried these with a lucid kernel?
I have it working on 2.6.32.10. Is that still Karmic?

My problem - the middle button code isn't working well for me (or my hand is just not used to it) - for example I keep closing FF tabs instead of selecting them grr. So I edited the source to remove middle button code, but the software I need for work (Lotus Notes bah!) won't start anymore with the new kernel, I think I was over zealous removing unnecessary stuff with the xconfig tool.

Digression- I'm new to Ubuntu, having used several flavours of linux in the last 15 years or so (Anyone remember the yggdrasil distro? :p ), and the last few years I was/am a Mac OSX user, so you may understand me if I say something like "Bloody hell, what happened?". I have never seen such a complicated procedure for building a kernel. What happened to "make config && make clean && make vmlinuz? Things seem to have changed drastically (last linux I tried was RH about 3 years ago, I ditched that because of some weird stuff going on with that new PAM thing and my then NVidia gfx card). I guess I have some new education to sit through. I need to know, once I have a working kernel that I want to keep, how can I build and reinstall just a single module without building everything from scratch again (that's about an hour on my laptop)?

Anyway, thanks to everyone who is involved in getting this mouse working in Ubuntu.

[drelig]

I get also lot of misinterpreted button presses, but much of this is because of the hardware. I believe that there is only on switch under the mouse casing and the chosen mouse button is decided from the touch information. The mouse can't know which finger was used to press the button, if they all are touching the mouse. To make sure that right buttons is chosen, you should lift your other fingers little bit. This is too arduous for the primary button click (code should be modified to generate primary button click always when it's not clearly middle or right click). But for more infrequent middle and right clicks it's possible to use this technique of lifting up other fingers.

nemessuisse presented commands for building module in message #86:


make
sudo rmmod hid-magicmouse
sudo insmod hid-magicmod.ko
sudo modprobe hid-magicmouse


This is fine for testing, but the old module is reverted in every restart. When you have tested the module to work correctly, you can make the change permanent with following command. I have no idea why and how it works, I just copied it from the make script of fsam7440 module.



sudo -s "install -d /lib/modules/2.6.32.8-mk/kernel/drivers/hid/ && install -m 644 -c hid-magicmouse.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32.8-mk/ && /sbin/depmod -a"

[SlappyPappy]

I recently got this mouse as a gift and I've been trying everything here to get it going but no luck.

I sincerely hope that the next Ubuntu can use this mouse with little to no fuss.

Thanks for all the hard work and info here...

[TheCoda]

@Slappy, there is a prebuilt kernel (2.6.31-20.57) available which include the magicmouse support. This is the nearest you will get to 'little to no fuss'. I have tried this and it works fine for me (apart from the module having middle click support which I cannot get on with): http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=63&p=91#p91

@Drelig Thanks for the instructions for the building of the module, I'm sure I tried just using make but it didn't seem to work. I'll will try again.

I have managed to build from scratch the lucid kernel and patch it using the patches linked here, but although the mouse works fine (and I removed middle click lol) unfortunately my main workhorse Lotus Notes currently will not start under this kernel. Plus, these patches do not work anymore on 2.6.31 kernels, so I am stuck with 2.6.31 (prebuilt from the link above) with a middle click because I can't use the module that I built when I made on the 32 kernel:

sudo insmod ./hid-magicmouse.ko
insmod: error inserting './hid-magicmouse.ko': -1 Invalid module format

If anyone still has the patches that were for the 31 kernels I would appreciate them.

[drelig]

I just noticed that there was several mistakes in the module build commands in my last message, but they should be fixed now. However, I haven't done this for older version 31 kernel so unfortunately I can't help in that.

[drelig]

By the way, I noticed that if I move mouse really quickly having fingers on the touchpad the pointer gets stuck roughly where it was, but if I take my fingers away from the top surface of the mouse the movement is tracked correctly. Does anybody else notice this behaviour and does somebody have mac to try if it happens there also?

[davim]

Has anyone tryed this: https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/magicmouse
or this one https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/multitouch

????

[davim]

The xorg edgers PPA is working for me :)

[Freek07]

The driver above works for me, but there are two really annoying problems:

1) scrolling is too slow (I need to pass almost whole mouse for one page down). Is there a way to tweak scrolling speed?

2) mouse is too fast. If I slow it down in gnome, I also slow down touchpad on my mbp so it becomes unusable. Is there a way to tweak speed for this mouse _only_?

[jisaac]

magicmouse 1.1 is published for 10.04. Any way to make it working on 9.10?

Thanks.

[amd-64]

magicmouse 1.1 is published for 10.04. Any way to make it working on 9.10?

Thanks.


Where can I find this magicmouse 1.1 for LUCID. Any change it does not require compiling a new kernel, using dkms perhaps.

[jdong]

Where can I find this magicmouse 1.1 for LUCID. Any change it does not require compiling a new kernel, using dkms perhaps.

The repository should also be valid for Lucid. Note that this requires compiling a new kernel because the magicmouse driver requires more information from the Bluetooth stack than the standard Linux bluetooth API exports. So, it includes some patches to the core Bluetooth stack to add new API calls, which cannot be inserted by a kernel module via dkms.

[amd-64]

Okay. This is really excellent. I added the PPA from post 101 above http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9120510&postcount=101.

Then in synaptic, I added multitouch-kernel-source which also requires dkms. I could not add the module right away because you need to unload several other modules. Reboot then


sudo modprobe hid-magicmouse Now I am very pleasantly scrolling vertically with a touch of the magic beast.

Let me make this clear. I did not compile a new kernel, I am using Lucid 2.6.32-21 from the repos. Dkms compiled a few modules, and they will be updated with every new kernel.

Of course, if you are happy with the module, you can add it to a new line in /etc/modules so it gets loaded with every reboot.

[jdong]

Let me make this clear. I did not compile a new kernel, I am using Lucid 2.6.32-21 from the repos. Dkms complied a few modules, and they will be updated with every new kernel.

Well, the maintainers of that PPA compiled that custom kernel for you. So in Lucid you'll be relying on them to track the latest security updates.

[jisaac]

Hi there!

I can't make it work neither with the amd-64's indications (post #107)! I'm using Lucid 64bit (2.6.32-22) on a iMac 27" i7.

Can someone make a little step by step tutorial?

Thanks.

[amd-64]

jisaac

I assume you have no issues with Bluetooth connectivity, the mouse works but not as multitouch.

Here are the steps to activate multitouch. I am using the same kernel you have 2.6.32-22 but on a mbp5,3

Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file



deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chasedouglas/multitouch/ubuntu lucid main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/multitouch/ubuntu lucid main


In a shell (or in synaptic) you can do the following


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source
I then rebooted and inserted the module


sudo modprobe hid-magicmouseYou should not get any errors at this point

Test scrolling by swiping the multitouch surface of the mouse.

If all works well you may need to add "hid-magicmouse" without quotes to your /etc/modules file so it gets loaded on every boot.

[jisaac]

Hi amd-64!

I did not get any error and I've inserted the module as well but no way the surface does not work.

Any idea?

[amd-64]

jisaac, you must be very close now.

Check in mouse preferences > touchpad> two finger scrolling is enabled
Find out what other modules may be interfering. There is a list of my modules from 'lsmod' below. Check that you have all the hid and apple specific modules. Check for any messages in /var/log related to hid_magicmouse. What else?

Module Size Used by
ahci 37646 4
applesmc 29217 0
bcm5974 8453 0
binfmt_misc 7960 1
bitblit 5811 1 fbcon
bluetooth 58621 10 hidp,rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
bnep 11820 2
bridge 53152 0
btusb 12969 4
fbcon 39270 71
font 8053 1 fbcon
forcedeth 55592 0
hid 81789 4 hid_magicmouse,hidp,hid_apple,usbhid
hid_apple 5309 0
hid_magicmouse 6035 0
hidp 14295 1
i2c_nforce2 6099 0
ieee1394 94675 1 ohci1394
input_polldev 3106 1 applesmc
joydev 11072 0
l2cap 34774 23 hidp,rfcomm,bnep
led_class 3732 1 applesmc
lib80211 6119 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
lib80211_crypt_tkip 8676 0
lp 9336 0
nvidia 10799466 44
nvidia_bl 7632 0
ohci1394 30260 0
parport 37160 2 ppdev,lp
ppdev 6375 0
rfcomm 40329 8
sco 9617 2
snd 70978 18 snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,s nd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq _oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_hda_codec 85727 2 snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_cirrus 11825 1
snd_hda_intel 25645 3
snd_hwdep 6924 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_mixer_oss 16299 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 8500 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_pcm 87850 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm_oss 41394 0
snd_rawmidi 23388 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57417 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_seq_device 6824 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd_seq_dummy 1782 0
snd_seq_midi 5829 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7267 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_oss 31219 0
snd_timer 23553 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
softcursor 1565 1 bitblit
soundcore 8052 1 snd
stp 2171 1 bridge
tileblit 2487 1 fbcon
usb_storage 49833 0
usbhid 40352 0
uvcvideo 62403 0
v4l1_compat 15495 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 12020 1 videodev
vga16fb 12757 1
vgastate 9857 1 vga16fb
videodev 40486 1 uvcvideo
wl 1964968 0

[jisaac]

I have not touchpad tab in my gnome-mouse-properties!?

Could it be the problem?

After inserting hid_magicmouse it seems that others are missing... I've inserted them successfully but nothing (only right and left click).

In the other hand my bluetooth preferences show "No Bluetooh adapters present"...

I did not find any error related to hid_magicmouse in /var/log...

I've attached my lsmod output.

PS: amd-64, I appreciate your help, thanks.

[amd-64]

I am not sure what package is missing, so here are the ones I have, one of them provides the touchpad tab, I hope

tpconfig
kcm-touchpad
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
gsynaptics
bcm5974-dkms



Have you used BT on MACOSX, in other words, can you confirm you have BT and that it is enabled. The adapter should be present and visible. Install blueman-applet and see if it can connect.

[jisaac]

I have to make more tests (with blueman) but I think my Bluetooth is not detected on Ubuntu 10.04.

Let you know soon...

PS: It is unabled and working perfectly on OSX.

[jisaac]

No way, no bluetooth neither with blueman and bluez :(

I've opened 2 new threads:
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1471483
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1471519

[amd-64]

If you don't have BT in 10.04 why you think there is a magic mouse issue to deal with. You have the module loading fine, so it is a matter of getting BT recognized on the imac, nothing else.

To start diagnosing.

sudo grep -R bluetooth /var/log

and look for any error messages in the output

[jisaac]

If you don't have BT in 10.04 why you think there is a magic mouse issue to deal with. You have the module loading fine, so it is a matter of getting BT recognized on the imac, nothing else.

I did it because, someone else could test it from a clean install of 10.04 and give us his feedback easier if looking for any Magic Mouse issue on an iMac 27" i7 or similar (I've used a more appropriate name for the title).

Here is the output of "sudo grep -R -i bluetooth /var/log | grep -i error":


/var/log/debug:May 3 21:55:04 mac01 bluetoothd[2015]: HFP AG features: "Ability to reject a call" "Enhanced call status" "Extended Error Result Codes"
/var/log/debug:May 3 21:55:47 mac01 bluetoothd[2031]: HFP AG features: "Ability to reject a call" "Enhanced call status" "Extended Error Result Codes"
/var/log/debug:May 3 21:57:01 mac01 bluetoothd[2047]: HFP AG features: "Ability to reject a call" "Enhanced call status" "Extended Error Result Codes"
/var/log/daemon.log:May 3 21:55:04 mac01 bluetoothd[2015]: HFP AG features: "Ability to reject a call" "Enhanced call status" "Extended Error Result Codes"
/var/log/daemon.log:May 3 21:55:47 mac01 bluetoothd[2031]: HFP AG features: "Ability to reject a call" "Enhanced call status" "Extended Error Result Codes"
/var/log/daemon.log:May 3 21:57:01 mac01 bluetoothd[2047]: HFP AG features: "Ability to reject a call" "Enhanced call status" "Extended Error Result Codes"

Here is the ouput of "dmesg | grep -i bluetooth":


[ 19.010149] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 19.010292] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 19.010294] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 19.014658] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
[ 19.014659] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 19.018188] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 19.018191] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 19.018192] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11


I've attached:
- "bluetooth_setting_OSX.txt": My OSX bluetooth settings.
- "bluetooth_status_OSX.txt": My OSX bluetooth status.
- "grep_bluetooth_varlog.txt.tar.gz": The output of "sudo grep -R -i bluetooth /var/log".
- "grep_magicmouse_varlog.txt": The ouput of "sudo grep -R -i magicmouse /var/log".

[schmidberger@gmx.at]

On Ubuntu 9.10 with the patched kernel the Magic Mouse was working very well.

Now I upgraded to 10.04.
BT and Magic Mouse is working, but not the touchpad on the Magic Mouse.

So I installed 'magicmouse-kernel-source', rebootet and loaded the module. Now the touchpad at the mouse is working but the mouse pointer is jumping around the screen.

The same with 'multitouch-kernel-source'. Any ideas?

Thanks
Markus

[Chrissss]

Thanks to the ppa:xorg-edgers/multitouch PPA it's quite easy to get the Magic Mouse up and running in Lucid. This...

* Left click
* Middle click
* Right click
* Vertical scrolling

...works for me. I can't get...

* Horizontal scrolling (even though i activated it inside the gnome settings)
* Twi finger swipe and every other "fancy" functions
* Adjust the scrolling speed (it's quite slow)

...to work. I guess you guys have the same issues?

Thanks
Christoph

[amd-64]

On Ubuntu 9.10 with the patched kernel the Magic Mouse was working very well.

Now I upgraded to 10.04.
BT and Magic Mouse is working, but not the touchpad on the Magic Mouse.

So I installed 'magicmouse-kernel-source', rebootet and loaded the module. Now the touchpad at the mouse is working but the mouse pointer is jumping around the screen.

The same with 'multitouch-kernel-source'. Any ideas?

It was working well for me until I updated two days ago. Now i can report the same as schmidberger, the pointer is too jumpy/jittery making it almost impossible to use, but the multitouch functionality works fine.

[albertoi]

I had the same problem. "magicmouse-kernel-source" is not longer update. I installed "multitouch-kernel-source" and now works fine.

Run the following to install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/multitouch
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source

More info: https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch

Sorry for my english, I'm spanish. ;)

[Chrissss]

Hmmm... Yesterday i was able to work with the Magic Mouse. Today I can't. The cursor is stuck to the upper left corner of the screen. It doesn't move when i move the mouse. Only when i touch the surface of the mouse. It looks like that i'm able to move the cursor by touching the surface. But the movement is very jittery.

@albertoi
So I installed multitouch-kernel-source out of the Multitouch-PPA. By installing the multitouch-kernel-source package the magicmouse-kernel-source has been removed. But I still have the same problem...


$lsmod | grep hid
hid_magicmouse 6035 0
hidp 14295 1
l2cap 34774 21 hidp,rfcomm,bnep
hid_apple 5309 0
usbhid 40352 0
bluetooth 58621 10 hidp,rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
hid 81789 4 hid_magicmouse,hidp,hid_apple,usbhid

$ dpkg -l *multitouch* | grep ii
ii multitouch-kernel-source 1.2 Experimental multitouch device driver source
ii multitouchd 1.0-0ubuntu1 tools for multitouch devices


What kernel module is running in your system?

[albertoi]

$ lsmod | grep hid
hid_magicmouse 6035 0
hidp 14295 1
hid 81789 2 hid_magicmouse,hidp
l2cap 34774 21 hidp,rfcomm,bnep
bluetooth 58621 10 hidp,rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb

$ dpkg -l *multitouch* | grep ii
ii multitouch-kernel-source 1.2 Experimental multitouch device driver source


I just uninstall "multitouchd", "magicmouse-kernel-source" and install "multi-kernel-source".

I've lucid lynx with the lastest kernel 2.6.32-22-generic

[togsfx]

It was working well for me until I updated two days ago. Now i can report the same as schmidberger, the pointer is too jumpy/jittery making it almost impossible to use, but the multitouch functionality works fine.

I have the exact same problem. Are there any workarounds for this problem yet?

[albertoi]

I have the exact same problem. Are there any workarounds for this problem yet?

Run the following to install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/multitouch
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source

More info: https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch

Sorry for my english, I'm spanish.

[amd-64]

Run the following to install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/multitouch
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source

More info: https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch

Sorry for my english, I'm spanish.

This did not work for me. Magic mouse is still jumpy across the screen but the multitouch works fine. Does this has to do with X11 settings? I have no xorg.conf.

BTW, another BT mouse (Logitech) works fine.

[togsfx]

Run the following to install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/multitouch
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source

More info: https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch (https://launchpad.net/%7Echasedouglas/+archive/multitouch)

Sorry for my english, I'm spanish.

Thank you Albertoi. Unfortunately this does not work for me either.. Looking forward to new ideas on this issue.

[Chrissss]

I reported the issue to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15928 and wrote on linux-input@vger.kernel.org about it. Unfortunately I didn't get an answer yet.

[togsfx]

And I reported a bug on launchpad.net:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/578520

[davim]

I'm having the same problem, it seams like the multitouch surface of the mouse is beeing interperted as a trackpad...

[Chrissss]

There was a update for multitouch-kernel-source today... But according to the changelog (https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch/+packages)...


multitouch (1.4) lucid; urgency=low

* Some hid drivers were skipped, added them in
* Bump module versions for HID drivers so dkms installation succeeds

...nothing changed about the magic mouse.

[davim]

Just updated and I'm still gettin the same issues :(

[davim]

no news on this?

[Chrissss]

According to the changelog (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49026335/multitouch_1.5_source.changes) they worked on the magic mouse part...


multitouch (1.5) lucid; urgency=low
.
* Fix eGalax Touchcontroller event report definitions
* Fix Magic Mouse initialization when HIDRAW is not available

...but it's not a fix to the problem.

[Dorisking3]

My Magic mouse works well generally before I installed the VMware Fusion on my Macbook Pro. It now often cracks and seems a little bit harder to connect with my Macbook via BT.:mad:

[davim]

I've updated my packages but it still doesn't work :(

[tuping]

Hello folks,

I have installed the multitouch-kernel package and it worke well for me until today.
Yesterday I have used the magic mouse normally, but today it isn't working well and the mouse seems to be recognized as a "touchpad" and I can move the cursor by touching the surface only. Yesterday everything was right, the mouse worke properly and the multitouch surface worked like the "mouse wheel".

Yesterday, the following lines din't appear on my syslog file:


May 26 06:32:04 e4300 kernel: [ 68.209883] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch
May 26 06:37:25 e4300 kernel: [ 32.909262] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch
May 26 07:01:53 e4300 kernel: [ 113.913025] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch
May 26 07:12:06 e4300 kernel: [ 28.199420] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch
May 26 07:22:02 e4300 kernel: [ 143.699573] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch

And below are the lines that I think are related to magicmouse (yesterday and today):



May 25 09:47:04 e4300 bluetoothd[1272]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2B:F9:59:A3, dba=D8:30:62:42:32:67)
May 25 09:47:04 e4300 kernel: [11949.342555] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0006: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 25 09:47:04 e4300 kernel: [11949.342810] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/input21
May 25 11:38:11 e4300 bluetoothd[1272]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2B:F9:59:A3, dba=D8:30:62:42:32:67)
May 25 11:38:12 e4300 kernel: [18617.157448] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0007: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 25 11:38:12 e4300 kernel: [18617.157585] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/input22
May 26 06:32:04 e4300 kernel: [ 68.209883] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch
May 26 06:32:36 e4300 bluetoothd[1221]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2B:F9:59:A3, dba=D8:30:62:42:32:67)
May 26 06:32:36 e4300 kernel: [ 100.347185] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0005: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 26 06:32:36 e4300 kernel: [ 100.348147] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/input20
May 26 06:33:07 e4300 AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
May 26 06:33:15 e4300 bluetoothd[1221]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2B:F9:59:A3, dba=D8:30:62:42:32:67)
May 26 06:33:15 e4300 kernel: [ 139.629687] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0006: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 26 06:33:15 e4300 kernel: [ 139.630706] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/input21
May 26 06:34:08 e4300 bluetoothd[1221]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2B:F9:59:A3, dba=D8:30:62:42:32:67)
May 26 06:34:08 e4300 kernel: [ 192.593161] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0007: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 26 06:34:08 e4300 kernel: [ 192.593294] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/input22
May 26 06:37:25 e4300 kernel: [ 32.909262] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch
May 26 06:37:42 e4300 bluetoothd[1213]: link_key_request (sba=00:24:2B:F9:59:A3, dba=D8:30:62:42:32:67)
May 26 06:37:42 e4300 kernel: [ 49.490026] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0005: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 26 06:37:42 e4300 kernel: [ 49.490080] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/input20
May 26 06:37:54 e4300 kernel: [ 61.832127] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0006: hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on 00:24:2B:F9:59:A3
May 26 06:37:54 e4300 kernel: [ 61.832179] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3/3-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/input21



I don't know if it helps, but it seems that yesterday (when the line Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2~multitouch doesn't appear on my syslog) the mouse worked well. Today, it isn't working.

I'm not an expert on hardware issues but maybe this information can help someone to figure out a solution.

Regards,
Rodrigo.

[davim]

@Tuping you should add this information to this bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/578520

thanks!

[drelig]

I was using the Magic Mouse and Apple wireless keyboard nicely with the older 2.6.32-21 kernel, but some weeks ago the new 22 kernel prevented both of these devices to pair with the computer at all. For those who don't know yet, you can boot to older kernel by pressing shift key during boot to show the grub menu (assuming you installed your system before the kernel update).

According to Synaptic the current version of multitouch-kernel-source was 1.2 and for some reason the Update Manager wasn't able to update it. I typed the installation commands from the page https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch (https://launchpad.net/%7Echasedouglas/+archive/multitouch) again and rebooted to the new 22 kernel. Now the devices are working again and Synaptic reports version 1.5 for multitouch-kernel-source. I don't have the Apple computer, but hopefully this helps others struggling with latest updates.

[jorgecachoh]

I all,

Yesterday I installed multitouch:


$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/multitouch
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source

I was able to work perfectly with mouse and with scrolling. But after 2-3 reboots the mouse began to be very jumpy/jittery making it impossible to use so I have uninstalled multitouch-kernel-source.

Is there any update on this so scrolling works on Magic Mouse?

[Twiggy794]

I experienced the crazy mouse jumpiness when using the xorg-edgers repository, namely the xserver-xorg-input-evdev package. Removing that gets me usable behavior out of my magic mouse, albeit with slow scroll speeds.

[tuping]

Just to confirm: uninstalling and then reisntalling xserver-xorg-input-evdev did work for me.

I have made an sudo remove xserver-xorg-input-evdev, then rebooted. Ubuntu didn't show up the login screen because when you do a remove of this package it also remove xserver-xorg-core...

So I have to enter in "recovery mode" and make a sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core and voillà, my magic mouse is working again.

Thanks for the help, Twiggy794.

[Twiggy794]

So are there any projects out their actively working on the true multitouch features of the device? I'd love to get two-finger scrolling working, and optimally get my 3-finger and 2-finger swipe bindings setup that I use in OSX. I definitely would be interested in doing some of the hacking myself, but it's not something I'm familiar enough with to get started on my own.

[schmidberger@gmx.at]

This is not working at my system. I only removed the 'xserver-xorg-input-evdev' package (sudo dpkg --force-depends --remove xserver-xorg-input-evdev). After reboot my keyboard was not working any more in the xorg. So I reinstalled the package in the recovery mode. Now everything is woking fine, but not the Magic Mouse.

Probably it depends on another package you removed?

Best
Markus

[Twiggy794]

This is not working at my system. I only removed the 'xserver-xorg-input-evdev' package (sudo dpkg --force-depends --remove xserver-xorg-input-evdev). After reboot my keyboard was not working any more in the xorg. So I reinstalled the package in the recovery mode. Now everything is woking fine, but not the Magic Mouse.

Probably it depends on another package you removed?

Best
Markus

When I removed xserver-xorg-input-evdev I had to replace a ton of packages. A quick fix might be to remove the xedgers repo and reinstall the multitouch packages, or try this:



$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-all
$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all


I'm recalling this from memory so the package names might not be entirely correct, but I would assume you just inadvertently removed a necessary package for the Magic Mouse when you removed evdev.

[davim]

Just try installing the ubuntu-desktop package.

[Twiggy794]

There were two updates on xorg-edgers in the last week or so. Has anybody tried them? Giving them a go now.

Edit: Nevermind, they were for Maverick.

[inflintor]

So are there any projects out their actively working on the true multitouch features of the device? I'd love to get two-finger scrolling working, and optimally get my 3-finger and 2-finger swipe bindings setup that I use in OSX. I definitely would be interested in doing some of the hacking myself, but it's not something I'm familiar enough with to get started on my own.

What is two-finger scrolling with magic mouse?

I have made some preliminary testing for getting inertia scrolling and swipe gestures, but I don't have anything useful yet. As always, lack of time makes sure this is going forward really slowly. I have made my changes by modifying the kernel module which makes things little bit complicated, but I have no idea how to get the data in user space.

Of course it would be nice to get the pixel scrolling also, but there is lot of problems to get it working without breaking the traditional line scrolling.

[Twiggy794]

What is two-finger scrolling with magic mouse?

I have made some preliminary testing for getting inertia scrolling and swipe gestures, but I don't have anything useful yet. As always, lack of time makes sure this is going forward really slowly. I have made my changes by modifying the kernel module which makes things little bit complicated, but I have no idea how to get the data in user space.

Of course it would be nice to get the pixel scrolling also, but there is lot of problems to get it working without breaking the traditional line scrolling.

How were you going about doing this? I know nothing about building an Xorg driver.

As for two-finger scrolling, this would effectively mean that A) the entire surface of the mouse is scrollable and B) it treats two fingers like one, so mouse acceleration isn't doubled as a result of the second finger.

I spent a little time today chatting with Chase Douglas on his build system for his multitouch kernel repo and have forked it on Github. I have a patch merged into my master branch that I found here (github.com) (http://github.com/juuva/linux-magicmouse/commit/b1b802cb714f554127724c41b42bd9c9ae6a0677). I've been using this patch for a few weeks and while the acceleration needs tweaking, it works well. It will allow you to use the entire surface of the mouse for scrolling, as well as enable horizontal scrolling. An amd64 package is attached below.

If you're feeling REALLY hardcore, I have backported Chase Douglas' commits to the Maverick kernel source tree. I'll tell you now, these don't work. They crash my machine after the desktop loads (and presumably the bluetooth service initializes). I'll be looking into the bugs later this week hopefully, but any assistance would be more than welcome.

Here's the link to my repo: http://github.com/scottferg/multitouch
And here's another link to the amd64 package: http://github.com/downloads/scottferg/multitouch/multitouch-kernel-source_1.5_all.deb

[inflintor]

Is your master branch compatible with Lucid Lynx and what commands I should use to build and install module from your repo?

For my own testing I did something like this to get modifications build:


add multitouch repo and install multitouch-kernel-source package
copy /usr/src/multitouch-1.5 to /usr/src/custom-multitouch-1.5
modify /usr/src/custom-multitouch-1.5/dkms.conf with the new name
modify /usr/src/custom-multitouch-1.5/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c
dkms add -m custom-multitouch -v 1.5
dkms build -m custom-multitouch -v 1.5

To install them temporarily (boot will revert to old module)


rmmod hid-magicmouse (your mouse stops working)
insmod /var/lib/dkms/custom-multitouch/1.5/KERNEL/VERSION/module/hid-magicmouse.ko

To install permanently


dkms remove -m multitouch -v 1.5 --all (your mouse stops working)
dkms install -m custom-multitouch -v 1.5

To get further modifications build:


dkms remove -m custom-multitouch -v 1.5 --all
dkms add -m custom-mutltiouch -v 1.5
dkms build -m custom-mutltiouch -v 1.5
rmmod hid-magicmouse (mouse stops working)

There is probably easier way and I would be happy to hear about it. Currently I'm testing with the kernel timers to get the module send inertial scroll events.

[Twiggy794]

Is your master branch compatible with Lucid Lynx and what commands I should use to build and install module from your repo?

For my own testing I did something like this to get modifications build:


add multitouch repo and install multitouch-kernel-source package
copy /usr/src/multitouch-1.5 to /usr/src/custom-multitouch-1.5
modify /usr/src/custom-magicmouse-1.5/dkms.conf with the new name
modify /usr/src/custom-magicmouse-1.5/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c
dkms add -m custom-mutltiouch -v 1.5
dkms build -m custom-mutltiouch -v 1.5

To install them temporarily (boot will revert to old module)


dkms remove -m multitouch -v 1.5 --all (your mouse stops working)
insmod /var/lib/dkms/custom-multitouch/1.5/KERNEL/VERSION/module/hid-magicmouse.ko

To install permanently


dkms install -m custom-multitouch -v 1.5

To get further modifications build:


dkms remove -m custom-multitouch -v 1.5 --all
dkms add -m custom-mutltiouch -v 1.5
dkms build -m custom-mutltiouch -v 1.5
rmmod hid-magicmouse (mouse stops working)

There is probably easier way and I would be happy to hear about it. Currently I'm testing with the kernel timers to get the module send inertial scroll events.

Just cd into the directory and:


$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b


Also, I have merged in the latest Maverick patches, so my master branch is now a backport of the Maverick upstream.

[inflintor]

Just cd into the directory and:


$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
Also, I have merged in the latest Maverick patches, so my master branch is now a backport of the Maverick upstream.

Thanks, I was able to build a package and install it. However, for testing new modifications to the kernel module it would nice to try the new module without loading it automatically in boot. I have used to do that by installing the *.ko file with insmod command, but I wasn't able to do the same with this installation process.

If the boot reverts to old modules it's easy to continue development after a restart if some mistake freezes the computer. But if the problematic module is already installed I have to boot the computer with live-cd and remove the module manually to be able to get the machine running again. Naturally I wouldn't like to do this after every mistake I make, because I do make lot of them.

[inflintor]

Here is the first and very early version of inertial scrolling. I took the Twiggy794's master branch and made little changes on top of that. It's not very reliable in starting and stopping the movement and also it's done now only for vertical axis. It's working in my setup, but be prepared to fix your computer and have backups if you are going to try it, because I don't have much experience in kernel module development.

To install:


Download attached zip file and extract it to /usr/src
dkms add -m scottferg-multitouch -v 0.1
dkms build -m scottferg-multitouch -v 0.1
rmmod hid-magicmouse (your mouse stops working)
insmod /var/lib/dkms/scottferg-multitouch/0.1/KERNEL/VERSION/module/hid-magicmouse.ko

This installs the module only temporarily and restart should fix things if anything goes wrong.

The slow end of the movement is really jerky with current line scrolling events. It would be great if someone has knowledge or is able to learn little bit about Firefox plugins. Basically we need plugin that listens to two specific keyboard keys and scrolls one pixel up or down when those events occur. That way we could make the magicmouse send both line scrolling events like now and pixel scrolling events trough that specific key event. Of course the normal scrolling has to be disabled in Firefox to avoid double scrolling, but I think this can be done through the about:config page.

[inflintor]

Actually the scroll event has to be mouse button instead of keyboard key to be able to scroll unfocused windows also. I don't know if it is possible to generate and listen events of mouse buttons that don't really exist, but this would be quite straightforward way.

[Twiggy794]

This is awesome. Do you want to fork it on github so we can track changes more easily? It would make collaboration a bit easier.

I think the ideal solution here though is to have this occur in userspace with an Xorg driver. This way individual applications wouldn't need to do anything, and we could also customize to the level of BetterTouchTool and enable fancy swipe gestures.

[inflintor]

Yeh, I should put this to github, it's just one more thing to learn. I had a look to Mozilla api and it looked like there isn't support for additional mouse buttons, but scrolling is trivial.

Actually the xorg driver starts to be quite interesting. Maybe the two-finger scrolling or some other touchpad functionalities are implemented that way and we could use those as a starting point.

[Twiggy794]

Yeh, I should put this to github, it's just one more thing to learn. I had a look to Mozilla api and it looked like there isn't support for additional mouse buttons, but scrolling is trivial.

Actually the xorg driver starts to be quite interesting. Maybe the two-finger scrolling or some other touchpad functionalities are implemented that way and we could use those as a starting point.

Paging back in this thread I see some vague mentions of the Synaptics driver that some users also apparently have active. I'm using my Magic Mouse on my desktop, so I don't have any synaptics hardware, but yeah, an Xorg driver would be ideal past the existing functionality.

[rlinsurf]

Can someone tell me how the update to 10.0.4, which actually removes Bluetooth support, affects all of this? I can't even get that going, much less my Mouse.

[Twiggy794]

Can someone tell me how the update to 10.0.4, which actually removes Bluetooth support, affects all of this? I can't even get that going, much less my Mouse.

What update? I'm using it just fine :/

[rlinsurf]

What update? I'm using it just fine :/

Ubuntu. As soon as I installed, I was alerted that there were a bunch of files, and an update, to 10.0.4. After I performed the update, I was informed that support had been removed for the following: and Bluetooth was one of those in the list. Sure enough, my magic mouse stopped working altogether, and the bluetooth menu had disappeared.

[davim]

could anyone create a PPA archive for this?

[nilsja]

Twiggy794, i don't know how to use github.


Just cd into the directory and:
Code:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

What directory? Do i first have to download each file? At download i only find an amd package...

[Twiggy794]

Twiggy794, i don't know how to use github.

What directory? Do i first have to download each file? At download i only find an amd package...

Try this:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core
$ git clone git://github.com/scottferg/multitouch.git
$ cd multitouch
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
You'll find the multitouch-kernel-source_1.5 package in the parent directory.

[Twiggy794]

Cross-posting this with another thread:

Hardcore hacks ahoy. If you use my kernel driver and follow these (http://pymt.eu/wiki/DevGuide/InstallPymtUbuntu) instructions (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/PyMT) you can get PyMT up and running on Lucid. PyMT requires an application to be running on the desktop, but continues to accept input whether or not the app has focus (or is minimized). Because of this, I was able to hack together a rough implementation of multitouch gestures for the desktop.

Swiping left/right with two fingers will rotate the cube. Swiping down with three fingers will call up Expose. In order to use this you will need the Dbus, Scale, and Rotate Cube plugins enabled in Compiz. I also had to be a little dirty and apply:

$ sudo chmod a+r /dev/input/event7
in order to run the app as the current user. Without this, Dbus can't connect to the running session.

Here's the Python file: http://gist.github.com/546779

PyMT installation instructions for Lucid: http://pymt.eu/wiki/DevGuide/InstallPymtUbuntu
PyMT configuration instructions for Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/PyMT

[davim]

Cool :) thanks Twiggy

[sriram.venkataramani]

I had the same problem. "magicmouse-kernel-source" is not longer update. I installed "multitouch-kernel-source" and now works fine.

Run the following to install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chasedouglas/multitouch
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install multitouch-kernel-source

More info: https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch

Sorry for my english, I'm spanish. ;)

Just wanted to let everyone know that I tried this and it worked perfectly. I had to go back to the mouse settings and adjust the mouse sensitivities but I have the following working:

1. Left Click: Used to work everywhere on the mouse before I did this, but now works only on the LHS.sentivity
2. Right Click: Works on the RHS. (I am a right handed user.)
3. Middle Click (?): Clicking anywhere else works as a middle click. How can I adjust the settings for the click?
4. Vertical Scroll: Increased mouse sensitivity and now works great.
4. Tab Scroll: Same way as Vertical scroll on tabs will rotate between tabs of any window.
5. Increase font: Ctrl + Mouse Vertical Scroll does the trick.

Thanks albertoi!

[Jamie White]

I know this is a little old now, but I can't seem to find a more relevant place.

My Magic Mouse worked perfectly out of the box, but I still don't get the forward/back gesture by swiping left or right. Any ideas?

I can survive without this until someone fixes the Magic Mouse completely. Whereas the Apple Wireless Keyboard is turning into a nightmare for me.

[nutznboltz]

Than open "debian.master/rules.d/amd64.mk" and change

flavours = generic server
to

flavours = generic server magicmouse

... skip ...

Finally you are ready to build your new kernel (this takes a while...):

fakeroot debian/rules clean
skipabi=true skipmodule=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-magicmouse
skipabi=true skipmodule=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep


Why don't people realize they can put "skipabi=true" and "skipmodule=true" in amd64.mk (and i386.mk) instead of on the command line?

I see this being done all over.

[zolkin]

Hi!

I'm probably too late here, but, occasionally, does anybody tried to install it for:


$ uname -r
2.6.32-38-generic


Also, after reading this long thread (probably I missed something) it isn't clear for me - can I install drivers on such a new kernel?
and also, Which recipe is better and preferable #20 by Jay2Cee or #110 by amd-64.

Help is greatly appreciated.

Some info:
My Magic mouse works fine except the Scrolling and multitouch.

P.S.Question

If method #20 by Jay2Cee is correct - how should I modify the following lines


git checkout Ubuntu-2.6.31-19.56

#AND#

getall amd64 generic server
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They are not clear for me... (I know - dumb (( )