Ubuntu Manpage: atp — Apple touchpad driver

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NAME

       atp — Apple touchpad driver

SYNOPSIS

       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into your kernel configuration file:

             device atp
             device usb

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

             atp_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The atp driver provides support for the Apple Internal Trackpad device found in many Apple laptops.
Older (Fountain/Geyser) and the newer (Wellspring) trackpad families are all supported through a unified
driver.

The driver simulates a three-button mouse using multi-finger tap detection. Single finger tap generates
a left-button click; two-finger tap maps to the middle button; whereas a three-finger tap gets treated as
a right button click.

There is support for 2-finger horizontal scrolling, which translates to page-back/forward events;
vertical multi-finger scrolling emulates the mouse wheel.

A double-tap followed by a drag is treated as a selection gesture; a virtual left-button click is assumed
for the lifespan of the drag.

atp supports dynamic reconfiguration using sysctl(8); through nodes under hw.usb.atp. Pointer
sensitivity can be controlled using the sysctl tunable hw.usb.atp.scale_factor. Smaller values of
scale_factor result in faster movement. A simple high-pass filter is used to reduce contributions from
small movements; the threshold for this filter may be controlled by hw.usb.atp.small_movement. The
maximum tolerable duration of a touch gesture is controlled by hw.usb.atp.touch_timeout (in
microseconds); beyond this period, touches are considered to be slides. (This conversion also happens
when a finger stroke accumulates at least hw.usb.atp.slide_min_movement movement (in mickeys). The
maximum time (in microseconds) to allow an association between a double- tap and drag gesture may be
controlled by hw.usb.atp.double_tap_threshold. Should one want to disable tap detection and rely only
upon physical button presses, set the following sysctl to a value of 2 hw.usb.atp.tap_minimum.

HARDWARE

       The atp driver provides support for the following Product IDs:

       •   PowerBooks, iBooks (IDs: 0x020e, 0x020f, 0x0210, 0x0214, 0x0215, 0x0216)
       •   Core Duo MacBook & MacBook Pro (IDs: 0x0217, 0x0218, 0x0219)
       •   Core2 Duo MacBook & MacBook Pro (IDs: 0x021a, 0x021b, 0x021c)
       •   Core2 Duo MacBook3,1 (IDs: 0x0229, 0x022a, 0x022b)
       •   12 inch PowerBook and iBook (IDs: 0x030a, 0x030b)
       •   15 inch PowerBook (IDs: 0x020e, 0x020f, 0x0215)
       •   17 inch PowerBook (ID: 0x020d)
       •   Almost all recent Macbook-Pros and Airs (IDs: 0x0223, 0x0223, 0x0224, 0x0224, 0x0225, 0x0225, 0x0230,
           0x0230, 0x0231, 0x0231, 0x0232, 0x0232, 0x0236,  0x0236,  0x0237,  0x0237,  0x0238,  0x0238,  0x023f,
           0x023f,  0x0240,  0x0241,  0x0242,  0x0243,  0x0244,  0x0245, 0x0246, 0x0247, 0x0249, 0x024a, 0x024b,
           0x024c, 0x024d, 0x024e, 0x0252, 0x0252, 0x0253,  0x0253,  0x0254,  0x0254,  0x0259,  0x025a,  0x025b,
           0x0262, 0x0262, 0x0263, 0x0264, 0x0290, 0x0291, 0x0292)

       To discover the product-id of a touchpad, search for 'Trackpad' in the output of lshal(1) and look up the
       property usb_device.product_id.

FILES

       atp  creates  a  blocking  pseudo-device  file,  /dev/atp0,  which  presents  the  mouse as a sysmouse or
       mousesystems type device--see moused(8) for an explanation of these mouse types.

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