[wplug] trackpad on powerbook

[Moshe Katz-Hyman]

Unless you have the NEWEST new powerbooks, (the ones introduced last
week or whatever), all powerbooks use an internal ADB bus for the mice
and keyboards, so you will have to use the adb entries in /dev.  I don't
know what they are off the top of my head, maybe /dev/adb/mouse or
something?  I dunno.  Anyway, even the old powerbook docs should have
something about ADB trackpads, since they've been around for quite some
time.

Moshe


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:54 -0500, John Harrold wrote:
> So I decided it was time to get a laptop and I got a powerbook. Naturally
> the first thing I did was repartition the drive to install linux. Now I've
> got debian installed and it's dual booting between osx and debian just
> fine. After installing and configure X, gdm starts and x _looks_ fine.
> However, the mouse doesn't work. I've tried various devices in the
> XF86Config file:
> 
> /dev/input/mice
> /dev/input/mouse0
> /dev/input/mouse1
> /dev/psaux
> 
> though none of them seem to work. I realize that apple just started using
> trackpads which give the use scrollwheel like functionality. Is it possible
> that this is what is wrong? 
> 
> I've looked around on the web and most of the pages about installing linux
> on powerbooks are pretty old. Can someone from the list who messes around
> with linux on apples suggest a more up to date resource?
> 
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