MAC Magic Mouse on Ubuntu 9.10

[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_magicmouse

to /etc/modules should do the trick

Thanx linuxopjemac, 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/+s...ux/+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/ever...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