Gentoo on a Macbook?

DefconAlpha · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: crackly audio

anybody else have crackling audio from either the internal or external speakers on the macbok?

anybody else have a friggin clue as to why there are two volume controls? i have to have Front turned most/all of the way up to get any high-freq sounds and i have to have Headphone turned up to get any volume and when combined... well... crackling.
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thouters · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Belgium

It would be great if you could just boot the macbook from an external firewire drive into OS X.

I can use the extra 10gigs I had to sacrifice for OSX. The 4 partition limit is not realy a
problem since I just made a boot and LVM partition, with logical volumes for everything.

The only features at this point I have to get working are Bluetooth and Suspend-to-ram.
I didn't do the trial-and-error method to get s2ram working, and I'm not looking forward
to it. Bluetooth will be a bit more difficult, I think the iSight and bluetooth are of a
newer revision than the macbooks the howto applies to. the iSight works now,
with linux-uvc-0.1.0, but bluetooth remains a problem. I hope it's fixed soon, I need it
for a school project.

dmvianna · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:03 am Post subject: Re: crackly audio

DefconAlpha · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: crackly audio

DefconAlpha · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject: Re: crackly audio

dmvianna · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:08 am Post subject: Re: crackly audio

dmvianna · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: Re: crackly audio

ErniBrown · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

vesafb sometimes crash with 100% cpu usage, I want to try intel fb, the one in mactel patches, someone know its name? Which options accepts?
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diego_82 · Apprentice Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 257 Location: Londra

Excuse me for the OT, I can't find a way to make the Airport work in monitor mode; I don't know if it's possible and which driver must use for this (it's an Atheron chipset card, right?).

Thanks guys. Diego.

dmvianna · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject:

Hey, I am using 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 with the mactel patchset. Every time I come back from sleep, I see gkrellm freeze 3 seconds out of each 7. I feel like the system is *slightly* less responsive as well. Has someone noticed that, or similar behavior? It didn't happen before I've aplied the mactel patchset, I reckon. I am using alsa-driver, ati-drivers, gcc-4.1.1 and the system is up to date. I did not use blscreen's config, for it does not seem to work with my machine.

[EDIT]: 2.6.18 issue. Fixed when I downgraded to 2.6.17-gentoo-r6.
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jettjunker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 267

So my remote used to work just fine, but I havn't used in quite a while... Today I tried to and it didn't work. I know the remote and sensor work because booted into OSX and it worked just fine. On the linux side, however, xev isn't even reporting the events. I have no idea what I might have changed in all the time since I last used it... but xmodmap is still set properly, and that is all that is in the wiki. (And even if that were the problem, xev should report the events).

Anyone have any ideas?
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dmvianna · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:16 am Post subject:

Did you apply the apple-ir patch to your kernel and enabled it in .config?
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jettjunker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 267

Yea, I rememeber doing that, and I just made sure it was there.

On that note, I figured it was worth a shot loading it as a module instead of having it in the kernel, and now it works... for anyone else who might have trouble.

danke danke.
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dbautista · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:20 am Post subject: Mic?

Anyone has succeded in activating and using the built-in mic with hda-intel?

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Does anyone know of a Gentoo LiveCD that has support for the Airport wireless ?
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Alienfreak · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 5

Hi there.

I just odered an MacBook with the Merom Core (which is EFI 64Bit compatible). It already seems a bit of hard work for me to get this baby running under Gentoo

Has anyone tried how to activate the architecture features of the Merom? And which cflags would be appropriate.

And did anyone check how the 2.6.19-rc5 works with the MacBook? Do you still need the Kernel Patches with those?

Alienfreak · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 5

I already looked up the Gentoowiki page on Cflags ... but i want your opinion ... just so you know

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Cobo · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 42

So, it seems then, the only way to achieve having more than 4 partitions is dealing with LVM or "transfer" MacOSX to an external hard drive, gaining one more partition... isn't it?
Anyone knows if the LVM works really well and if I should know something more than what in the LVM guide? I'm pretty interested in having more partitions... phisically or logically.

And also... if we could all post or opinions on the CFLAGS topic, it could be very helpful.

I just got mine (with Core 2 Duo) and see how it goes and leave some comment it here.

Cheers!

dmvianna · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:05 am Post subject:

thouters · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Belgium

Cobo · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 42

thouters: Yes, MacOS really sucks... It's nasty that I have to maintain three systems (MacOSX->updates, Windows->University software, Linux->the one I like) while I use only Gentoo... sigh.

Anyway... I'm getting some troubles with the kernel. Maybe s.o. can help:
1. Is it still necessary to apply 'efi_e820_all_mapped_fix.patch'. In the guide it says it's not in the repository anymore, but actually it is. This, trying to make a 2.6.18 kernel and another 2.6.19 too.
2. Haven't tried yet with the 2.6.19, but with 2.6.18 I get the following message when trying to apply the patches:

thouters · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Belgium