Gentoo on a Macbook?

baigsabeeh · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:

I'm planning on getting a MacBook or a MacBook Pro. I will be ordering tomorrow. I want to have Gentoo Linux on it too, but I won't be giving OS X the boot because I like it a lot. My main concern is being able to share files back and forth. Would it be possible to have a separate /home partition for OS X, and use this in Linux as well? I wouldn't have a separate home partition for Linux. I'd just bind certain directories in that hfsplus partition to my /home directory on Gentoo. Would this work? Is it even possible to bind a directory on an hfsplus partition to a directory on an ext3 partition and be able to write?
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Thesee · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

bienchen · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:18 am Post subject:

Hi,

I am just about installing Gentoo 2008.0beta2 on my MacBook and found something queer:
I'm using a 5 Partition setup (EFI + MacOS + /boot + / + /home) and therefore followed the "Alternative Partitioning... 2" from the Wiki. After hours of playing around I found that I have to create a link /boot/grub/grub.conf -> /boot/grub/menu.lst by myself to get everything working. Additionally I had to use /bzImage instead of /boot/bzImage but I'm not sure if this is terribly important.
Is this menu.lst thing a bug or something? Should it be mentioned in the Wiki?

greetings,

bienchen

YourNameInHere · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

Hi,

someone got the "LINE IN" working? I'm useing the built in alsa modules from 2.6.24-gentoo-r8.
Everything works fine. But a externel Mic doesn't work. It seems that I have to activate the Line in first (because i can hear it very very quiet). But how can I do this? (the amixer is set to 'Input Source' 'Line')

I have a MacbookPro v3

thx anyway

Lacraia · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:10 am Post subject:

You can't connect a microphone to the line-in because it has no amplifier. You can only connect amplified equipment.
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nonhuman · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

The insanely easy way to share files back and forth is to just have an HFS+ partition that you use for that purpose. Linux has has HFS+ drivers for a very long time, and I've never had a problem with them, even when using them in a server environment.
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hoschi · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

Hello, I have some question to my Macbook (late 2007), at first: I work generally in the shell/console, no X11 is installed

When I suspend with "echo mem > /sys/power/sate" this works perfectly, but I am missing a "wakeupkey" like the FN-Button on the Thinkpads, opening the panel or pushing the powerbutton is annoying me.

I wont to enable page-scrolling with "shift+pageup", I don't find something similiar with "dumpkeys".
I there a workaround or something else, without page-scrolling working in the console is a pain.

I have to add this "options snd-hda-intel model=mbp3" to my /etc/modprobe.d/options, how can I do this with built-in-kernel-drivers?

Thanks
Hoschi
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HitMaker · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

Hi there, I've search the forum but I couldn't clear my mind, I am trying to install my wireless card but it has been impossible for me to do it, I have check madwifi wiki, this BLOG and nothing...

Here where i am:

-I've downloaded the latest trunk package from madwifi and I have installed it how it has to be, also I've checked before I had the kernel correctly built.
-But I don't see how i can create the ath0 interface, its been imposible to me

If I follow the blog when i do: "iwlist ath0 scan" the systems says that interface doesn't supprt scan, but there is no interface ath0 (ifconfig...)

Could someone help me please? :oops:

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bienchen · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

Hi,

so I installed Gentoo on my MacBook and now I have a question concerning X. When I use `startx`, among others I get the following message:

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dreadhead · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

Hi folks,

I'm running now about half a year on my MacBook Pro. Everything works fine except that I still have trouble with suspend to ram. At the beginning s2ram -f successfully put the Machine into sleep state. Sometimes I had the crash after wakeup as described in the wiki. But it was usable...

Now, half a year later the behaviour has changed completely. s2ram -f still puts the device into sleep state and I do not have he mentioned crashes anymore. However, when calling s2ram there is a 90% chance that the Machine wakes up again immediately. This means that I have to call s2ram about 10 times until I can finally close the lid and put everything in my bag. As you can immagine this is REALLY annoying.

Does anyone have a hint how to debug this? Currently I have no idea what process, event, whatever makes the system wake up again.
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m4yer · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 13 Location: GER

hi, i'm currently installing gentoo on my new macbook

but i'm failing at making kernel ...

could someone pls give me a recent kernelconfig? (eg 2.6.25)

the one in the wiki doesnt work very well (stopps @ booting @ usb and resumes 1 or 2 minutes later)
(it boots, but well, this su***)

thx

Thesee · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

taiger · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 112

I have the same problem on Gentoo 2008.0beta2

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dreadhead · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject:

dmvianna · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

Hey folk,

Anyone got an annoying cd bay that will keep cranking unless it gets a CD into it? Even better, has anyone solved that issue? :roll:

On s2ram: I ditched it a long time ago in favor of logging off X and using a script containing:

brfsa · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: macbook pro High CPU usage

I have a very high CPU Usage and high latency on my macbook pro 3,1
on just normal desktop usage.

X, acrobat reader and many other applications seems to have very high latency, (low response time) and hanging often.

sometimes X will use 100% cpu.
for example when resizing a window in xfce4 it will hang for 2 seconds before displaying the final resized window.

I'm using Time frequency of 1000HZ, and Voluntary Kernel Preemption.

anyone had this issue?

Fully Preemptive Kernel wont let me load madwifi-trunk modules (ath_pci)

SYSTEM:

MacbookPro (3,1) C2D 2.2GHz, 4GB, Gentoo AMD64, GCC 4.2.4,

rEFit + Lilo boot loader

Kernel: 2.6.26-gentoo

XFS file system, 4k block, agcount=8, 128mb Journal Log,

CFLAGS="-march=native -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

Anyone Please?

:cry:

brfsa · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

just note.

I got all the hardware and RAM suspend working smooth...

"echo mem > /sys/power/state"

I used kernel 2.6.26 config from this page:

http://www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/index.php

dmvianna · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: macbook pro High CPU usage