Hey there, I am actually running Slackware on my Macbook. I struggled with the touchpad, it was really jumpy and unusable. Now I have it working pretty well. I am using the synaptics touchpad driver for X.
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I have:
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
#Load "speedo"
Load "synaptics"
Then in the InputDevice section:
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "synaptics"
# On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following
# protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse:
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "AccelFactor" "5e-06"
Option "BottomEdge" "310"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "FingerLow" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "LeftEdge" "100"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.88"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.5"
Option "RightEdge" "1120"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "TopEdge" "50"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "0"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "false"
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
And also:
# The mouse device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse,
# which is usually a symbolic link to the real device.
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
That gives me pretty usable setup. If you like, my whole xorg.conf is available at
http://marmot.dudeabides.net/slackmac.xorg.conf.
I believe that I installed synclient from a slack pack I found via google. I also installed a madwifi slack pack, and I am able to use the built-in wireless that way.
Hope this helps,
1H8Reg