MacBook5,1
This article is to provide information on how to get components of Apple's MacBook5,1 also know as the MacBook Aluminum working in Arch.
Discussion of this in in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=444664
Contents
Installation
To install, follow the instruction on the MacBook page.
Multi-Touch Trackpad
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Sound
The Alsa section on Arch wiki covers the sound setup mostly. However, to get speaker/s? working, edit file:
/etc/modprobe.d/options
And put the following:
options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3
Video
Install the 'nvidia' package and run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root. Be sure to have dbus and hal installed, and enabled in rc.conf (i.e. DAEMONS=(dbus hal other_stuff)).
Wireless
Follow the instructions in the Broadcom_BCM4312 article and install the broadcom-wl driver.
Bluetooth
Issue: Either I dont know how to do this or it takes more work...
Suspend/power management stuff
Suspend works (tested in GNOME)
iSight
Works.
Issue: When using it in Cheese, logs spill out "uvcvideo: unknown event type 79." (number changes).
Sensors
motion sensor: How do I test?
an ambient light sensor: How do i test?
fan sensors: How do I test?
Temperature sensors: Could only get CPU core temps.... Need more!!!
Anything else?
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