Hello For what it's worth, I have a Macbookpro6,2 and /etc/rc.conf has
dbus_enable="YES" udevd_enable="YES" no hald or moused enabled, trackpad works fine. Another test you could run is boot up FreeBSD using a usb stick and see if the problem persists. If not, we can try figure out how to patch the relevant drivers in DragonFly. Cheers Peeter -- On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 8:47 PM Patrick McDonough <~patrick/[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> > 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 >>
