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mtrack driver seems to not be working correctly on mid-2015 15 inch macbook pro #90
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isomarcte
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Jun 15, 2015
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I believe I have found at least part of the issue. I noticed this in the system log. Specifically these lines towards the bottom. Any ideas what would cause that? |
isomarcte
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Jun 15, 2015
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Okay. Adding myself to the |
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Your user needs access to the input devices. You have to be in the input group for that =) |
garrett92895
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Aug 9, 2015
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Because the newer versions of Xorg are rootless, they do not have permission to access input devices by default. |
BlueDragonX
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Aug 10, 2015
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isomarcte commentedJun 15, 2015
Hey everyone,
I am running Linux on a mid 2015 15 inch macbook pro. I have been trying in vain to get the mtrack driver to work with the trackpad so that it behaves more like OS X. First off, I realize this may be a moot issue for the time being, because the trackpads on 2015 MBPs don't officially work completely with the current Linux kernel (See the linked bug at the bottom). Specifically, multitouch input is not detected right now. However I was able to fix the multitouch issue by recomiling the Linux kernel with the two patches proposed on this kernel bug issue.
That being said, while mutlitouch and two-finger scrolling is now working out of the box, I can't seem to configure it.
Here are my specific issues,
By the way, when I say that Gnome "crashed" what I really mean to say is that when I attempt to login to my profile, it accepts my password, starts login, then restarts the GDM as though I had never logged in. I am not actually sure what is happening there...but they best term I can use to describe it is a crash. System logs don't seem to show anything like the service restarting so I am somewhat at a loss.
Relevant Information
Kernel Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96771
Patch 1: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=175481&action=diff
Patch 2: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=177881&action=diff
Linux: Linux foobar 4.0.5-1-mac #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 13 15:40:47 MDT 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
xorg-server: 1.17.1
Gnome: GNOME Shell 3.16.2
If anyone has any ideas what is going on and how to fix it so I can configure the trackpad, I would be very appreciative. I am also just trying to get some help figuring out just where the issue is, i.e. Am I configuring mtrack incorrectly? Is Gnome screwing with the X configuration? Is the Linux patch not fully fixing the issues with the new trackpads (in which case I will report this upstream)? Or does mtrack just not yet fully support these new trackpads?
Also please forgive any grave mistakes I have made in this posting. I do not know much about X configuration.
Thanks in advance