<div dir="ltr">Might the trackpad problem be a hardware problem?<div>My 2013 MacBook Air trackpad often randomly throws the cursor back</div><div>to irrelevant positions on earlier lines when I edit text with it.</div><div>There is advice on the web for alleviating the problem by holding</div><div>down diagonally opposite corners of the trackpad rather firmly for</div><div>at least 5 seconds. The problem is not supposed to occur with</div><div>new trackpads. After holding down say lower left and upper right</div><div>corners as described, follow up with upper left and lower right,</div><div>and repeat the whole treatment several times. (For me that </div><div>made a difference, but the effect wears off so I use a mouse</div><div>instead when I can.)</div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:32 PM Patrick McDonough <~patrick/<a href="mailto:dfly@awk.is">dfly@awk.is</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Howdy. I'm working on getting Dragonfly 5.8 running on a reasonably <br>
recent Macbook Air (2017), with the intent to update the <br>
DragonFlyOnLaptops page with something a touch newer. The only real <br>
issues I've faced are audio and trackpad related, as I've skirted around <br>
dealing with Broadocm wifi using a cheap adapter board.<br>
<br>
Audio mostly works with snd_hda_load="YES" in loader.conf without <br>
further configuration. However this is only on pcm2, which is the <br>
headphone output. For speakers (pcm1) to work, I had to fiddle with the <br>
gpio configuration.<br>
<br>
sysctl dev.hdaa.1.gpio_config=0=set<br>
<br>
Dandy. The trackpad less so.<br>
<br>
I'm seeing seemingly random middle and right clicks when using the <br>
trackpad. It only happens when the trackpad is in use - so using a USB <br>
mouse alleviates the problem entirely. However within seconds of moving <br>
the cursor using the trackpad, I'm accosted by either middle or right <br>
click events.<br>
<br>
My configuration is a default XFCE4 desktop on Xorg, with everything <br>
installed through pkg. dbus, moused, and hald are the only additional <br>
services enabled in my rc.conf.<br>
<br>
If anyone has a clue, that would be great. Failing that - a link to the <br>
man/code for the relevant subsystem handling the trackpad <br>
(xorg-input-something? moused?) would be welcome.<br>
<br>
Patrick<br>
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