0004654: Kali 2018.1 Live/USB does not allow a MacBook 12" Retina 2015 to use trackpad

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004654	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2018-03-26 12:20	2018-09-12 07:28

Reporter	Juventus61	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	suspended
Product Version	2018.1

Summary	0004654: Kali 2018.1 Live/USB does not allow a MacBook 12" Retina 2015 to use trackpad
Description	When booting from a USB thumb drive, containing Kali 2018.1, the trackpad of the MacBook 12" Retina Early 2015 is not active. Nothing can be used: trackpad or keyboard and only the Power button is active. Basically Kali cannot be run on that platform. I also tried with an external BT mouse, with the same results, not being able to
Steps To Reproduce	Create a USB thumb drive with Kali 2018.1 Insert USB on the dongle for a MacBook 12" retina, Early 2015 Boot up and hold Option key Select the USB drive Then from the boot menu, select Live (note that the arrows are working, allowing to select any items in the boot menu) The Kali desktop will be loaded Trackpad (cursor) is not active, not responding Keyboard is not responding either Only Power button works, allowing you to shit down the MacBook
Additional Information	I also tried to configure an external BT mouse but also this configuration does not work and the mouse is not active

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-03-26 12:20	Juventus61	New Issue
2018-06-08 16:00	g0tmi1k	Severity	block => minor
2018-09-12 07:28	g0tmi1k	Status	new => closed
2018-09-12 07:28	g0tmi1k	Resolution	open => suspended
2018-09-12 07:28	g0tmi1k	Note Added: 0009691

g0tmi1k 2018-09-12 07:28 administrator ~0009691	We're sorry but we don't have the manpower to deal with hardware support problems. Those problems need to be fixed in the upstream Linux kernel. We regularly import new kernel releases.