VoodooRMI

A port for macOS of Synaptic's RMI Trackpad driver from Linux. This works for both I2C HID trackpads from Synaptic as well as Synaptic's SMBus trackpads. When following the instructions below, make sure you only select I2C or SMBus depending on your trackpad's capabilities.

Supported Features

• Force Touch emulation
• 3 and 4 finger gestures
• Trackpoint over PS2 Passthrough
• SMBus or I2C communication

Compatibility

Synaptic trackpads generally work over SMBus or I2C, though not both. Pay close attention to which bus it works over.

SMBus

macOS (Requires Acidanthera's VoodooPS2 version 2.2.0 or above):

• Look in IORegistryExplorer under ApplePS2SynapticsTrackpad, and look for the value Intertouch Support=True
• Look for "VoodooPS2Trackpad: Trackpad supports SMBus operation" within macOS logs (may need to use sudo dmesg to see this)

Windows:

• Check under Device Manager for a Synaptics SMBus device

Linux:

• If you are using intertouch (i.e. psmouse.intertouch=1) for your synaptics trackpad, then it's compatible
• Get i2c-tools from your package manager. Run i2cdetect -l, and note the number for SMBus (It's usually zero). Run i2cdetect # where # is the number you got from running the prior command. Synaptic devices are always at address 0x2c, so check at that address for anything other than --. It will usually appear as UU in my experiance if it's a Synaptics device.
  • If the trackpad does not show up, there is a chance that it will still work. There have been one or two examples of the trackpad not showing up but still being compatible.
• Likely compatible if you run dmesg and find a message along the lines of "Your touchpad x says it can support a different bus." and it's a Synaptics trackpad.

I2C

macOS:

• If you already have VoodooI2CHID installed, check folllowing values in IORegistry
  • VoodooI2CHIDDevice has HIDDescriptor containing VendorID 0x6cb, or
  • Parent device of VoodooI2CHIDDevice has name containing SYN or SYNA

Windows:

• Check for HID-compliant touch pad in device manager
  • In properties, verify General - location is on I2C HID Device and Details - Hardware Ids contains VID_06CB (or SYN, SYNA)

Linux:

• Check for the presence of i2c-SYN in dmesg.
• Get i2c-tools from your package manager, and use the i2cdetect tool to see if there are any devices at address 0x2c for any bus that isn't SMBus. If you see it under SMBus, I'd use SMBus as the trackpad seemingly operates better under SMBus!

Requirements

SMBus

• Acidanthera's VoodooPS2 >= 2.2.0
  • Version >= 2.2.5 is recommended for HP devices with multiplexed PS2 Controllers (Some of the HP Elitebook lineup for example)
• VoodooSMBus
  • VoodooRMI releases (for now) include VoodooSMBus. If you are building VoodooSMBus yourself, build from the Dev branch of the VoodooSMBus git repo.

I2C

• VoodooI2C 2.5 or newer is required
  • Follow their Documentation to identify if you need GPIO pinning.
  • Polling mode should just work
• If your device's ACPI name is not included below or marked as unknown, you may add it yourself and create a PR/issue

Installation

1. Add the required kexts to your bootloader
2. Make sure VoodooPS2 is configured as below:
   • Enabled:
     • VoodooPS2Controller.kext
     • VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/VoodooPS2Mouse.kext
     • VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext
     • VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext
   • Disabled:
     • VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/VoodooInput.kext
3. For OpenCore users, make sure to add the below kexts in the order they're listed into your config.plist.
   • VoodooRMI.kext
   • VoodooRMI.kext/Contents/PlugIns/VoodooInput.kext
   • SMBus trackpads:
     • VoodooSMBus.kext
     • VoodooRMI.kext/Contents/PlugIns/RMISMBus.kext
   • I2C trackpads:
     • VoodooI2C.kext
     • VoodooRMI.kext/Contents/PlugIns/RMII2C.kext

There is no support for this kext being loaded into Library/Extensions or System/Library/Extensions. This likely won't break loading it, but test with injection first before sending in a bug report.

Configuration

The values below can be edited under Info.plist within the kext itself - these can be changed without recompiling
Note that using non-integer value causes undefined behaviour which may prevent the kext from loading

Note that you can use Rehabman's ioio to set properties temporarily (until the next reboot).
ioio -s RMIBus ForceTouchEmulation false

Building

1. git submodule update --init --recursive
2. git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acidanthera/MacKernelSDK
3. Build within XCode using the play button in the top left
   • RMISMBus/RMII2C will automatically build when building VoodooRMI

Loading/Unloading

For loading, you may need to put RMII2C/RMISMBus's dependencies into the kextload command. Note that RMISMBus/RMII2C depend on VoodooRMI.

The below examples assume VoodooSMBus/VoodooI2C are in the same folder as VoodooRMI. If they are not, you will need to give the path to those kexts. When manually loading from within macOS, keep in mind that csrutil needs to be partially disabled to allow unsigned kexts, and the kexts need to be owned by Root.

Changing owner of kext

// Note that this changes the owner of every kext in the directory your in
sudo chown -R root:wheel *.kext

Manually loading kext

Example for SMBus:

cd path/to/unziped-VoodooRMI_Debug
sudo kextutil -vvvv -d VoodooRMI.kext -d VoodooSMBus.kext VoodooRMI.kext/Contents/PlugIns/RMISMBus.kext

Example for I2C:

sudo kextutil -vvvv -d VoodooRMI.kext -d VoodooI2C.kext VoodooRMI.kext/Contents/PlugIns/RMII2C.kext

For unloading, you can use the bundle ids. This should unload cleanly, though you may need to unload twice in a row to get it to cooperate.

sudo kextunload -vvvv -b com.1Revenger1.RMISMBus -b com.1Revenger1.VoodooRMI

Troubleshooting

Before creating an issue, please check the below:

1. Make sure VoodooSMBus/VoodooI2C is loading and attaching
   • VoodooSMBus Troubleshooting
   • VoodooI2C Troubleshooting
2. Make sure VoodooInput and VoodooPS2Trackpad is loading
   • kextstat | grep Voodoo
3. You may need to do IRQ patching on Haswell and older devices for SMBus trackpads
   • Required if the SBUS device does not have any IOInterruptControllers in IORegistryExplorer
   • CorpNewt's SSDTTime can do this automatically for you

If the above are loading, next place to check is within the IORegistry and within VoodooRMI logs:

1. Use IORegistryExplorer to check what is attaching and loading.
   • The various functions in VoodooRMI will publish debug information which can be useful
   • IORegs can be be saved using File -> Save As in the top left
2. Get logs from within macOS
   • If loading VoodooRMI using kextload or kextutil within macOS, you can use sudo log show --last boot | grep VRMI
   • If injecting through OpenCore/Clover, you will want to either use DebugEnhancer.kext or add the boot arg msgbuf=1048576. Once in macOS, use sudo dmesg | grep VRMI immediately after booting to get the logs.

When creating an issue, you will need to provide log files (IORegs not required but helpful)!