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/[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >
