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Stythys

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Macbook Pro

Does anyone else run arch on their MBP? I just got one of the new generation ones and was wondering how well arch supported it

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Dieter@be

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Re: Macbook Pro

I had arch running on a mbp santa rosa (that's late 2007 afaik)
But you're talking about the "solid aluminium" ones?

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Stythys

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Re: Macbook Pro

yeah the aluminum ones

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Stythys

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Re: Macbook Pro

....anyone?

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nuclearsandwich

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Re: Macbook Pro

I've got one of them with Archlinux installed along with Mac OS X. The proprietary Nvidia driver works with X, I haven't tried the free one. As of right now some voodoo is required to make the touchpad work beyond the very basic use as in you can move the mouse and single click. See the thread I opened on here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66397 on the touchpad for any progress made with it. I haven't yet tried anything fancy such as cpu frequency regulation or suspend and resume. One other thing I haven't had enough reason to fix yet: It must be shut down and not restarted otherwise the screen just goes nuts and the machine must be hard shut down, haven't looked into why. I'm still using my old Thinkpad for Arch until I can get the bulk of these issues sorted out. I'll try and keep you posted as I make things go. The Debian and Gentoo wikis have been my primary source of information thus far.

Stythys

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Re: Macbook Pro

thanks!

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Stythys

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Re: Macbook Pro

what wireless drivers are you using? can't get it to work in a VM

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rocket

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Re: Macbook Pro

I'm running Arch in a Macbook Aluminium 5,1. To make the wireless card working it's necessary to install the firmware. You can find in the AUR: broadcom-wl

About the synaptics touchpad I have a post about the bcm5974 to have multitouch in the thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66397

Hope that helps