From: Romano <unobe@cpan.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [patch] Improved Apple laptop support and miscellaneous typo fixes
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:36:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F5ACA4AD-2D03-44D4-8F7E-A689C15E6E46@cpan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38C54C2EF6F8D7F5DBCA4AF7E8A2AA63@smtp.pobox.com>
I assume there are issues with this patch, since only the vgadb portion was applied, so will try to resolve how the apple hardware is detected some other way.
On April 7, 2021 7:39:03 AM UTC, Romano <unobe@cpan.org> wrote:
>See attached.
>
>These changes provide better support for early-2011 Apple Macbook Pro
>laptops: native resolution by specifying the vid & did in /lib/vgadb,
>as well as providing an 'appletouch' mouse option, which stops i8042
>calls for the internal trackpad. See
>https://blog.fallglow.com/misc/mbpro/cs8390.kmesg for an example of
>what is generated when the vgadb entry is lacking and the i8042 calls
>occur.
>
>I hope to implement rudimentary multi-touch for the internal trackpad
>so that an external 3-button mouse is not required.
>
>There is still an error thrown when initializing the keyboard early on
>('i8042: kbd init failed'), but I haven't tracked down what is calling
>the i8042 reset whence the error message is generated. Additionally,,
>there is an issue with amlmapio.
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