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<p>I wouldn't have been terribly surprised if it was, but it doesn't
seem to be the case. I dug out some USB drives I had lying around
that I presumed would have at least one live environment I could
boot into. If only to give me a way to rule out anything
DragonFly.<br>
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<p>The first was an old version of MacOS Mojave, which didn't
display the symptoms in its graphical installer. I didn't think
that was a particularly great test, so I also found a drive
containing Xubuntu 20.04, which confirmed the trackpad was working
normally.</p>
<p>Patrick<br>
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<p>On 2020-06-29 17:55, David Walker wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:32
PM Patrick McDonough <~patrick/<a href="mailto:dfly@awk.is"
moz-do-not-send="true">dfly@awk.is</a>> wrote:<br>
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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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