Ubuntu 10.10 and Macbook Trackpad

[vgrisham]

This is the big problem for me on my Macbook Pro (5,3). I could give a rats backside about four fingered multitouch. I just want to be able to drag and drop stuff.

I had this problem in Lucid too, but following these instructions, I was able to get the trackpad to be functional. Not so with Maverick. The bcm5974-dkms_1.1.4_all_test.deb workaround no longer seems to be cutting it.

[smoors]

I had this problem in Lucid too, but following these instructions, I was able to get the trackpad to be functional. Not so with Maverick. The bcm5974-dkms_1.1.4_all_test.deb workaround no longer seems to be cutting it.

Thanks for the hint, that got me a little bit further. At least the page stated that right-click is possible with a two-finger click. That was new to me..

Apart from that, i found out that you can drag at least a window by double-tapping on the top of the window(where the title is).

Even with those hints the trackpad is hard to use.. i find it selecting text sometimes when it should not and those irritating things. I *really* would like to use linux more often on my macbook and the touchpad is one of the last things that doesn't work

[kosumi68]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=280

The amd64 version should be available in an hour or so...

[micseydel]

My MBP 5,5 had the touchpad stop working when I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10. I installed utouch, without improvement, then xserver-xorg-input-synaptic then bcm5974 and the touchpad started working again (what a relief!). I haven't managed to get the multitouch working that I was hoping for though.

After installing uTouch, it detected the touchpad perfectly, and gesturetest successfully identified all of the gestures I threw at it (1-5 fingers, taps and swipes).

How did you use gesturetest? I tried to use it on the terminal, but can't figure out what to use for the mask.