I guess it still needs some fine tuning but you can get it from https://github.com/Janhouse/lighter
I welcome any ideas and changes to improve it. (In the form of forks and commits on Github).
I also made a better acpi handler.sh config and improved scripts for manual keyboard and screen backlight control. Those scripts still need some fine tuning and I'll probably upload them to the same git repo once I merge them in one script properly.
Any comments?
]]>Any of you are using laptop-mode-tools to improve battery life? Any special configuration?
]]>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … 2.06_image
Don't know if anyone else has had this kind of trouble but thought it might help someone reading this thread
]]>Thank you @Janhouse, I just used refind (or refit) becouse is my first experience with Apple hardware and I was afraid to mess something up. Almost all websites and blogs explains how to do it this way but only a few talks about using grub2 alone.
If you're single booting Arch then you shouldn't need any bootloader/menu really, since the kernel acts as an EFI-loader itself.
For multiboot rEFInd or gummiboot are arguably simpler and easier to setup and use than grub2. The fact that Archboot auto-installs grub2 is not a good argument, because when something breaks users will then generally be in extra trouble since they hadn't done the initial installation themselves.
]]>Thank you @Janhouse, I just used refind (or refit) becouse is my first experience with Apple hardware and I was afraid to mess something up. Almost all websites and blogs explains how to do it this way but only a few talks about using grub2 alone.
I am trying to use pommed to adjust the keyboard brightess with no success. Has any of you succeed? Does Lightum do the same task or they are for different purposes?
Read what I posted before about the keyboard backlight: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1154877
]]>I am trying to use pommed to adjust the keyboard brightess with no success. Has any of you succeed? Does Lightum do the same task or they are for different purposes?
]]>On OSX:
sudo su
mkdir /Volumes/efi/
mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi/
bless --folder=/Volumes/efi/ --file=/Volumes/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi --setBoot --verbose
bless --mount=/Volumes/efi/ --file=/Volumes/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi --setBoot --verbose
Also Archboot grub2 efi install makes that grub load the grub config from your /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Just pointing this out because there are a lot of weird setup guides for Archlinux out there and this one makes more sense and leaves less duplicate files (and useless partitions) around the system.
Well, maybe the default Archlinux install iso now also does the same thing, no clue.
]]>I will try kernel 3.6 from aur so I hope applesmc works. No need the xrand thing as you recently mentioned.
]]>Do you think is safe to update the firmware before or after install Linux?
Any of you did the update?
]]>angelfalls wrote:i have a stupid question: how can i add noapic to kernel line?
thanks in advance. i stucks with booting step.When you see Arch boot menu - choose "Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)" using arrow keys, but don't enter - press <Tab>, in a promt add " noapic" to the end of the line.
thanks so much, i wasted the whole day to found out this answers. thanks again.
]]>i have a stupid question: how can i add noapic to kernel line?
thanks in advance. i stucks with booting step.
When you see Arch boot menu - choose "Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)" using arrow keys, but don't enter - press <Tab>, in a promt add " noapic" to the end of the line.
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