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Daps0l

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Registered: 2013-09-16

Posts: 1

Apple Magic Touchpad (bluetooth) on Macbook

Hi, i'm running Arch Linux on a Macbook Air 4,2 (2011). The trackpad on the Macbook Air is working perfectly, but i'm having trouble with the bluetooth touchpad which i use at home:
When i press the button on the touchpad to connect by bluetooth, it seems to connect ok:

[root@mba-Arch ]# dmesg | grep -i mouse
[    1.527253] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    3.596243] hid-generic 0003:05AC:820B.0004: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [HID 05ac:820b] on usb-0000:00:1a.7-1.1.2/input0
[    4.117400] input: B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.3/1-1.3.3:1.0/input/input3
[    4.117619] hid-generic 0003:046D:C025.0005: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1a.7-1.3.3/input0
[ 1755.370058] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030E.0008: unknown main item tag 0x0
[ 1755.370503] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030E.0008: input,hidraw2: BLUETOOTH HID v1.60 Mouse [david\xffffffe2\xffffff80\xffffff99s Trackpad] on 04:0c:ce:e3:00:ef

however it doesn't work/do anything. I've tried changing the 50-synaptics.conf as suggested here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1012923 but still nothing, and sometimes the system freezed entirely after a while (only when the magic trackpad is connected.)

Any advice is welcome

My current /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf:

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on" 
	Option "FingerHigh" "50"             
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
	Option "PalmDetect" "1"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on
# non-synaptics clickpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
#       To disable the bottom edge area so the buttons only work as buttons,
#       not for movement, set the AreaBottomEdge
#       Option "AreaBottomEdge" "82%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

nekolyanich

Member

Registered: 2013-12-03

Posts: 2

Re: Apple Magic Touchpad (bluetooth) on Macbook

Hi, i have same problem. I got kernel stacktrace. http://pastebin.com/yqMBBMtp  kernel ver 3.12.0-1-ARCH bluez5. i can reproduce this on all my arch systems. Hope someone can find error.