Getting a graphical desktop out of FreeBSD took surprisingly more work than with Dragonfly, but I've at least confirmed I'm seeing the same problem on FreeBSD 12.1. Useful exercise as I also noticed the phantom clicks happen on the console of the 5.8.1 install media (and a clean installed system).
Incidentally - apologies if this email pops up twice. All the moving between systems has made it difficult to keep track of my mail client settings. Patrick > 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 >>> >
