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Linux distro with kernel 5.3.9

Open Byte1122 opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

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?

Byte1122 avatar Dec 24 '19 14:12 Byte1122

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.

roadrunner2 avatar Dec 24 '19 18:12 roadrunner2

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

Byte1122 avatar Dec 25 '19 01:12 Byte1122

What distro?

yoeldovidcohen avatar Dec 25 '19 11:12 yoeldovidcohen

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.

roadrunner2 avatar Jan 10 '20 07:01 roadrunner2