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Showing posts with label touchpad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label touchpad. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

How to make clicking and scrolling work with Trackpad on Mac

My system is Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Edit Info.plist file located in:
 /System/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/
Login as root:
sudo su -
enter password:
vi /system/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/Info.plist


edit this part of the file
<key>Synaptics TouchPad</key>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad</string>
<key>IOClass</key>
<string>ApplePS2SynapticsTouchPad</string></font>
<key>IOProbeScore</key>
<integer>5000</integer>
<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>ApplePS2MouseDevice</string></font>
</dict>

Just remove the "Apple" so it reads
 <key>Synaptics TouchPad</key>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Trackpad</string>
<key>IOClass</key>
<string>PS2SynapticsTouchPad</string></font>
<key>IOProbeScore</key>
<integer>5000</integer>
<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>PS2MouseDevice</string></font>
</dict>

Now repair permissions:
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/Info.plist
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/ApplePS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePS2Trackpad.kext/Contents/Info.plist

exit
Reboot...........
Now you will be able to click and scroll using trackpad.