Macbook Air 2017 (7,2) Support

[Patrick McDonough]

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.

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.

Patrick

On 2020-06-29 17:55, David Walker wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20200629/fbf94527/attachment-0004.htm>