Ubuntu 10.10 on Macbook Pro problems (trackpad, bluetooth and sound not working)

[MikkoV]

Hi.

I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on Parallels 6 running on my Macbook Pro 15". I immediately (and unsurprisingly) ran into several issues.

a) The trackpad works as a regular mouse, but there is no multi-touch gesture recognition (only two-finter scroll) and no preference settings for trackpad. At least I didn't find any.

b) Also, bluetooth setup reports that there are no bluetooth adapters installed so I could not test my Magic Trackpad either.

c) I can't get any sounds either, even though preferences show an audio device selected properly.

What gives?

Best regards,
Mikko

 

[MikkoV]

Correction: forget the last one. Sound IS working! Just didn't have the settings correct.

But still no multitouch or bluetooth. Installed some synaptic packages and I now have "pointing devices" in the System/Preferences, but when I open it, it only shows "generic mouse" and no touchpad.

- mikko

 

[midlife_crisis]

Just a question, does Ubuntu support multitouch? I thought it was still under development.

 

[MikkoV]

That's a good question. It was widely claimed that Ubuntu 10.10 would support multitouch, but maybe I just don't know how to enable it. Might be an Ubuntu problem. Perhaps I should test with Windows 7 first.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch

 

[Simon Waddington]

Running Parallels 6.0 on my Mac Book Pro (latest, v7 I think) with Ubuntu 10.04 and multi-touch most definitely works - I can do two finger scrolling (sweet). I don't have any apps that might support pinch zoom that I know of.

I think your problem may be that these features are not supported unless you have the Parallels guest tools installed and so far, AFAIK there isn't a version of the guest tools for Ubuntu 10.10. When I tried to upgrade to 10.10 from 10.04 I was left without graphics (command line only) and when I uninstalled the current guest tools before upgrading I was left without all the nice OpenGL, shared drives, and other features guest gives you.

I hope that Parallels will get their updated Linux guest tools out because 10.10 has been available as beta and RC for quite a bit now. Hopefully there isn't anything that will prevent it coming soon!

 

[AntonioSuccu]

Hi all. Did anyone find out how to use the built in bluetooth in Linux under Parallels?
Regards

 

[John-PaulM]

Mouse not working at all!

I have parallels Build 6.0.11828 and a new Ubuntu distro installed. Initially the mouse worked fine, and now it is frozen whenever I boot up the virtual machine. Any ideas?