Re: Keyboard and mouse issues on MacBook Air (4,2)

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Oct 17 2011 - 14:17:04 EST


On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Hello LKML,
>
> after several days of reading various forums and mailinglists,
> it seems that keyboard and mouse support on the MacBook Air is
> pretty broken:
>
> - The fn key does not modify the cursor behaviour:
> FN+Cursor up should result in Page up,
> FN+Cursor down should result in Page down, etc.
>
> Actual result: Cursor keys are passed in as usual
>
> - The multitouch trackpad only works if bcm5974 is loaded before usbhid
> -> otherwise only left click works
>
> - If bcm5974 is loaded before usbhid, left moving the mouse while
> holding down the mouse button (i.e. the trackpad) does not work,
> but results in a right click
>
> Anyone a pointer on how to fix these issues?

Please try with my hid.git tree, preferably for-next branch. Namely
commit 4b086910ad1.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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