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4 BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974)
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6
7 :Copyright: |copy| 2008-2009 Henrik Rydberg<
8
9 The USB initialization and package decoding wa
10 part of the touchd user-space driver project:
11
12 :Copyright: |copy| 2008 Scott Shawcroft (scott
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14 The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch
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16 :Copyright: |copy| 2001-2004 Greg Kroah-Har
17 :Copyright: |copy| 2005 Johannes Berg
18 :Copyright: |copy| 2005 Stelian Pop (s
19 :Copyright: |copy| 2005 Frank Arnold (
20 :Copyright: |copy| 2005 Peter Osterlun
21 :Copyright: |copy| 2005 Michael Hansel
22 :Copyright: |copy| 2006 Nicolas Boicha
23
24 This driver adds support for the multi-touch t
25 Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops. It replac
26 those computers, and integrates well with the
27 system.
28
29 Known to work on Macbook Air, Macbook Pro Penr
30 Macbook 5 and Macbook Pro 5.
31
32 Usage
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34
35 The driver loads automatically for the support
36 becomes available both as an event device (/de
37 mouse via the mousedev driver (/dev/input/mice
38
39 USB Race
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41
42 The Apple multi-touch trackpads report both mo
43 different interfaces of the same usb device. T
44 with the HID driver, which, if not told otherw
45 HID mouse and keyboard, and claim the whole de
46 product id must be listed in the mouse_ignore
47
48 Debug output
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50
51 To ease the development for new hardware versi
52 be switched on with the debug kernel module pa
53 yields different levels of verbosity. Example
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55 echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters
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57 tail -f /var/log/debug
58
59 echo -n 0 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters
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61 Trivia
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64 The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums
65 a more permanent home at bitmath.org [#f2]_.
66
67 .. Links
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69 .. [#f1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph
70 .. [#f2] http://bitmath.org/code/
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