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Aug 31, 2003
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I've tried four different flavors of Linux on a 2013 15" MBP and I'm having similar trackpad issues on all distros. I've tried lightweight configurations and distros that have everything you could possibly want installed by default. All of them are having the same issue. The trackpad keeps going dead while you're using it.

Every variant of Linux that I've tried on this machine has the same issue. I'll be dragging the pointer using the trackpad and then it'll suddenly go dead and no movement will be registered.

Has anyone run into this before with Linux installed on their old Intel Macs? I'm baffled as to what's even going on.
 
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