+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+------------------------
BCM5974 Driver (bcm5974)
------------------------
+
The USB initialization and package decoding was made by Scott Shawcroft as
part of the touchd user-space driver project:
+
The BCM5974 driver is based on the appletouch driver:
+
This driver adds support for the multi-touch trackpad on the new Apple
Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops. It replaces the appletouch driver on
To ease the development for new hardware version, verbose packet output can
be switched on with the debug kernel module parameter. The range [1-9]
-yields different levels of verbosity. Example (as root):
+yields different levels of verbosity. Example (as root)::
-echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
+ echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
-tail -f /var/log/debug
+ tail -f /var/log/debug
-echo -n 0 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
+ echo -n 0 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
Trivia
------
-The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [1], and now has
-a more permanent home at bitmath.org [2].
+The driver was developed at the ubuntu forums in June 2008 [#f1]_, and now has
+a more permanent home at bitmath.org [#f2]_.
-Links
------
+.. Links
-[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040
-[2] http://bitmath.org/code/
+.. [#f1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840040
+.. [#f2] http://bitmath.org/code/