Magic Trackpad

vinodh

vinodh

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I bought myself a USB Bluetooth adaptor for my Hackintosh, running Lion, and it installed without any problems. Lion picked it up and installed drivers immediately. I then bought a Magic Trackpad and it also paired and installed immediately. However, cursor movement and clicking works, very intermittently. No gestures work whatsoever. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Two finger scrolling works but the pad stops working the moment I try 3/4 fingures.
 
Thanks. That really helped. (hopefully you can sense the extra helping of sarcasm there...) :)
 
The operative word here is "Hackintosh". The MTP was designed to work with Macs. End of story. If you are going to shoehorn OSX onto alien hardware then bits and pieces are not going to work. You'll have to wait until the guy who wrote the kext you are using updates it.
 
I know that it's a hackintosh. I actually mentioned it in my original post. Thank you Captain Obvious. Also, as stated in my original post, I did not use a kext. It was a built in driver.
 
Are you able to try it on the same OS version on Apple hardware?
 
Worked great in my hackintosh. Maybe it's an issue with your bluetooth adaptor, but I can't imagine what.
 
There's a guy at work that bought himself a MacBook Pro with Lion. I'll ask him if I can test the dongle on it. Also, i'll have to figure out how to disable the built-in Bluetooth to make sure the TrackPad uses the external dongle.
 
vinodh said:
There's a guy at work that bought himself a MacBook Pro with Lion. I'll ask him if I can test the dongle on it. Also, i'll have to figure out how to disable the built-in Bluetooth to make sure the TrackPad uses the external dongle.
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If there's a Bluetooth symbol in the menu bar along the top you can turn it off there, otherwise in System Preferences.
 
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Wake from sleep does not work with the MTp and my iMac either. I have to bang the keyboard to kill the screensaver. So I wouldn't lose sleep over that.
 
Thanks for the info. It seems as if Snow Leopard was better wrt to waking from sleep.
 
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