Refined ALPS TouchPad driver

[Bronxteck]

tried copying the part of the kext you need to your kext 

[whisky]

My Dell M4700 has Alps V3, I tried all versions of VoodooPS2Controller v4/v5/v6 RC, VoodooPS2Controller by Bronxteck, VoodooPS2Controller by RehabMan on my High Sierra but the system is still not fully recognize the touch pad, no trackpad found in Preference panel. I can still move the mouse cursor (very slow) with touch pad, using 2 fingers to scroll is fine. But tap to click and 2-finger tap to right-click doesn't work. I heard someone said that the system won't recognize touchpad without battery; unfortunately my laptop battery is dead and I'm using AC power so I cannot confirm if it is true.

[Hervé]

If you have an Alps V3 TouchPad, you should have it in your System Preferences if you've set up your USB ports properly. I highly recommend you consult this thread which illustrate a recent experience with that version of Alps Touchpad:

 

Once you get your TrackPad PrefPane re-instated, you'll be able to activate items such as "Tracking speed" or "Tap to click" (which is not enabled by default).

[whisky]

Thank you for replying my post. As you said in another thread, I’ve tried either methods: update USBInjectAll.kext to the newest version + SSDT patch or using USBport.kext only. None of these method work. I can confirm all my USB ports are recognized successfully because I used USB flash drive to test every single port. The weird thing I’m encountering is: I can only use “tap to click” and “2 finger right click” in Recovery mode and at Logon screen (the step that we have to enter our password after apple logo loading completely). Once I logged on, “tap to click” and “2 finger right click” don’t work anymore. Because of these thing, I assume “tap to click” and “2 finger right click” are disable immediately once I logged on, I’m unable to open TracPad PrepPane to enable them also. I’m figuring out a way to enable these feature by edit file but still have no idea. Any of your suggestion about this problem is really appreciated. 

 

Update:

I was successfully enable trackpad tap to click by these commands (using terminal):
 

# Enable tap to click
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad Clicking -bool true

# Enable "tap-and-a-half" to drag
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad Dragging -int 1

# Enable tap to click for the login screen
defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1

# Enable 3-finger drag
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true

Increase trackpad speed:

defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling -float 2.0

 

[djamiirr]

Hi.

 

First i want to thank you for this great job. 

My laptop is Lenovo ThinkPad and i'm using your kext. Everything is working except the TrackPad physical buttons and the TruckPoint.

what should i do?

 

And thanks in advance.

[Jake Lo]

Are you sure your touchpad is Alps? 

And what version is it?

[djamiirr]

Yeah i'm sure, the official driver in lenovo website is an ALPS one, and according to 

$ log show | grep ALPS

my alps is V7 PS2 built in Lenovo ThinkPad E560.

[Hervé]

Then refer to the note on post #1.

[oegoeh]

Hi,

 

I'm newbie in Hackintosh. Does any voodoo controller V8 source ? Last day I have the kext V8 and working partial in Dell e7270 Catalina, and I'm forget to save while try to install Mojave in my e7270 and now I'm back to Catalina  

 

edit:

FYI when use V6, my touchpad and keyboard is not function.

[Hervé]

Please refer to post #1. Developments on this kext stopped several years ago.