Ubuntu on Macbook Pro trackpad not smooth
Matthew Harrington
This probably has been answered somewhere but I didn't find the exactly solution. Most seem to point to how to get mac gesture working.
I installed Ubuntu on my late 2015 Macbook Pro 13in. After I find the trackpad is just a little off. It seems it becomes less sensitive. Sometime it wouldnt detect,it ends up almost 1cm movement without response. So the movement of the cursor is not smooth sometime. This can be frustrating as I can even struggle to navigate to a specific location I want.
Any solution to this. Ps. I am new to Linux but has basic unix experience from Mac.
Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.4 LTS.
31 Answer
No accepted answer on the following post, and it seems to be mostly speculative, however referring to a similar, but-not-same post, there is a Github repository with driver patches for your model of MacBook. The full github page can be found here, but for you specifically;
For models with a T2 chip (MacBookPro15,* MacBookPro16,1) you'll need the BCE drivers from and the touchpad and keyboard patches from
Hope this helps.
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