Macbook Air 2017 (7,2) Support

[David Walker]

Might the trackpad problem be a hardware problem?
My 2013 MacBook Air trackpad often randomly throws the cursor back
to irrelevant positions on earlier lines when I edit text with it.
There is advice on the web for alleviating the problem by holding
down diagonally opposite corners of the trackpad rather firmly for
at least 5 seconds. The problem is not supposed to occur with
new trackpads. After holding down say lower left and upper right
corners as described, follow up with upper left and lower right,
and repeat the whole treatment several times. (For me that
made a difference, but the effect wears off so I use a mouse
instead when I can.)
David



On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:32 PM Patrick McDonough <~patrick/dfly at awk.is>
wrote:

> Howdy. I'm working on getting Dragonfly 5.8 running on a reasonably
> recent Macbook Air (2017), with the intent to update the
> DragonFlyOnLaptops page with something a touch newer. The only real
> issues I've faced are audio and trackpad related, as I've skirted around
> dealing with Broadocm wifi using a cheap adapter board.
>
> Audio mostly works with snd_hda_load="YES" in loader.conf without
> further configuration. However this is only on pcm2, which is the
> headphone output. For speakers (pcm1) to work, I had to fiddle with the
> gpio configuration.
>
> sysctl dev.hdaa.1.gpio_config=0=set
>
> Dandy. The trackpad less so.
>
> I'm seeing seemingly random middle and right clicks when using the
> trackpad. It only happens when the trackpad is in use - so using a USB
> mouse alleviates the problem entirely. However within seconds of moving
> the cursor using the trackpad, I'm accosted by either middle or right
> click events.
>
> My configuration is a default XFCE4 desktop on Xorg, with everything
> installed through pkg. dbus, moused, and hald are the only additional
> services enabled in my rc.conf.
>
> If anyone has a clue, that would be great. Failing that - a link to the
> man/code for the relevant subsystem handling the trackpad
> (xorg-input-something? moused?) would be welcome.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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