hsteinbo
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6 years ago This is how I made it work on my system (Linux Mate based on Ubuntu 16.04, 4.4.0-128-generic ). I take no responsibility for any negative side effect on your system. Use at your own risk (or, as intended, to develop your own steps).
1) installed the kernel sources (as instructed)
2) cd'ed into the directory containing the HID sources cd (where you unzipped the driver file)/magictrackpad2-dkms-master/usr/src/hid-4.4+magictrackpad2
3) extracted the original driver sources, as we have to recompile it with the changes that make the magictrackpad work tar xvf /usr/src/linux-source-4.4.0/linux-source-4.4.0.tar.bz2 linux-source-4.4.0/drivers/hid/hid-apple.c tar xvf /usr/src/linux-source-4.4.0/linux-source-4.4.0.tar.bz2 linux-source-4.4.0/drivers/hid/hid-core.c tar xvf /usr/src/linux-source-4.4.0/linux-source-4.4.0.tar.bz2 linux-source-4.4.0/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h Please note: I have only provided the tar commands for those files for which I found a difference between the .orig files and the corresponding driver source files
4) create diff files the patched magitrack driver zip bundle does not include diff files for the hid-related source files, so I had to create them myself: diff hid-apple.c.orig hid-apple.c > hid-apple.c.diff diff hid-core.c.orig hid-core.c > hid-core.c.diff diff hid-ids.h.orig hid-ids.h > hid-ids.h.diff Please note: these diff files are based on the files that come with magictrackpad2-dkms-master.zip
5) copy the kernel files extracted in step 3) into the current directory (where you unzipped the driver file)/magictrackpad2-dkms-master/usr/src/hid-4.4+magictrackpad2 cp linux-source-4.4.0/drivers/hid/hid-apple.c . cp linux-source-4.4.0/drivers/hid/hid-core.c . cp linux-source-4.4.0/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h .
6) patch the kernel src files patch -b hid-apple.c hid-apple.c.diff patch -b hid-core.c hid-core.c.diff patch -b hid-ids.h hid-ids.h.diff
7) uninstall the previous version sudo dpkg -r magictrackpad2-dkms
8) build the new driver cd (where you unzipped the driver file)/magictrackpad2-dkms-master make watch out for errors...
9) install the driver cd build sudo dpkg -i magictrackpad2-dkms_1.0.0_all.deb watch out for errors reboot
The instruction says:
Why would I want to replace your drivers with those shipped with the kernel source? I don't understand; aren't these instructions for updating to newer versions of your dkms package?