Folks,
In case this helps anyone else setting up a Macbook Pro 13.3 model 5,5.
1). Installation proceeds normally. You may want to install rEFIt to allow dual booting with Mac OS X, in which case Anaconda should oblige by placing grub on the partition of your /boot partition. You then only need to run gptsync by choosing the Partitioning Tool next boot.
I took my new Macbook apart and upgraded the disk to a 500GB model from the tiny one it came with. They wanted a small fortune for a non 7200K drive upgrade, so I laughed. My partitions are as follows:
1: EFI (hidden in OSX) 2: OSX (100GB) 3: Linux Boot (1GB) 4: Linux LVM (swap,root,100GB) 5: Shared (hfsplus,100GB) 6: Data (2ext4,200GB)
The first three partitions are mapped to the MBR style GRUB is looking for following a gptsync within the EFI booter tool.
2). The new install has no networking because the 432b reversion part is unsupported by the b43 Open Source driver (they are working on it). You will need to download the "wl" driver from Broadcom. It won't load out of the box because it can't see the device. For the moment, the following hack in /usr/local/bin/wl_hack.sh (called from /etc/rc.local) suffices to load (this is weird, seems the second load/unload results in some ACPI power state change and the device will then show up randomly):
#!/bin/sh
# for some reason we don't see the bcm part unless we unload/reload b43/wl.
modprobe b43 modprobe -r b43 modprobe wl modprobe -r wl modprobe b43 modprobe -r b43 modprobe wl
It may still drop off the network from time to time. An upstream driver will be really helpful when that is available. I will need a backport of a future stable wireless tree to 2.6.32 since I am not planning to upgrade my X drivers for the incompatible ABI in future nouveau.
3). Sound won't work out of the box, but it will (including the headphone detection) if you do the following:
rpm -e alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
Then alsamixer will show all of the channel options, which you should set to 100% volume for now. The GNOME volume controls will now work. Add "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" to and exclude line /etc/yum.conf to prevent it ever getting installed again. Also add "kernel" to that line while you're at it if you'll be fixing the mouse in the next step. I like to build my own kernels for Fedora so I generally forbid it installing.
4). Out of the box, the mouse experience is horrible. You may want to create an xorg.conf file (using Xorg -configure), but there is a better way to configure the mouse on recent systems. Place the following in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> <!-- To add custom options for the touchpad, modify the examples below to suit your needs. The available options are listed in the "synaptics" man page. After modifyfing this file, you must restart HAL. Check the output of lshal whether your modifications have been merged successfully.
Note: Options must always be type "string". The following examples enable left, right, middle clicks on single, double, triple finger tapping, respectively.
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">2</merge> --> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">0</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">0</merge>
<!-- Not needed with the hacked up 2-finger-click-to-drag-driver <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickFinger2" type="string">0</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickFinger3" type="string">0</merge> --> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>
That will turn off the most annoying "TapButton" options and tell X to start the synaptics touchpad driver with the ability to dynamically tune the driver using a shared memory mechanism. This enables "synclient".
You need a fixed bcm5974 mouse driver (with the attached patch - cleaned up version to follow) that correctly supports two finger click-and-drag. I have modified an existing patch for 2.6.32 kernels and will post a kmod in due course. With that patch enabled you won't need to turn off the ClickButton support and can both drag and right/middle click.
5). The gnome-power-manager gets a little confused sometimes. Make sure it is always showing at least (sometimes it doesn't notice the battery even though that is showing in lshal, etc.):
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/gnome-power-manager/ui/icon_policy always
You will also need to chvt or similar to/from another VT on resume in order for the display to wake up. The HAL scripts specifically disable quirks in the case of KMS because they believe it will always work. I have tried hacking up the low level /usr/libexec/scripts/linux/ bits but that isn't working, so I need to find out what I am missing. For the moment, I switch to/from another VT on resume.
6). The backlit keyboard and controls aren't showing up or working. I can live without these until I get chance to figure that out.
7). The webcam isn't working out of the box and nor is bluetooth. There are instructions online covering these.
Once I configured my themes, set SELinux to permissive, and made a few other personal taste quirks, the experience so far isn't too bad.
Jon.