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roadrunner2 / macbook12-spi-driver

Input driver for the SPI touchpad / keyboard found in the 12" MacBook (MacBook8,1 + MacBook9,1) and 2016 through 2018 Macbook Pro's (MacBookPro13,* and 14,*); a Touch Bar driver is also available.
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Linux distro with kernel 5.3.9 #33

Open Byte1122 opened 4 years ago

Byte1122 commented 4 years ago

The keyboard and touchpad (Macbook pro mid 2017) still wont work with a linux distro that uses a linux kernel 5.3.9. Are there extra steps?

roadrunner2 commented 4 years ago

Please elaborate on "won't work": what exactly isn't working? The keyboard? The touchbar? Something else? A lot of information, btw, can be found at https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux/issues/ .

Regarding the keyboard/trackpad driver here, yes, it's part of kernel 5.3, but not all distros are enabling it yet, so you may still need to build it yourself if your distro doesn't.

Byte1122 commented 4 years ago

Ok clear. Thanks for explaining. I found one Linux distro with kernel 5.4.6 that is working.

yoeldovidcohen commented 4 years ago

What distro?

roadrunner2 commented 4 years ago

Btw., Fedora has it enabled as of kernel 5.3.10 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1769465), and Ubuntu 19.10 appears to have it enabled in their 5.3 kernels.