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FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - kdge

kdge — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:35:24 +0200

Josh's code on how to "right click" (or to us Mac users, control click) in FreeBSD is spot on. I've found a few thing that will help people out when setting this up.

1. Now, you can install xvkbd from the ports (the ports have updated to the latest version 3.0). So, install the port from the command line:
cd /usr/ports/x11/xvkbd && make install clean

2. Josh is right to modify the .xbindkeysrc (you can use Pico by typing in "pico .xbindkeysrc" from YOUR home directory... not the Super User home directory)

     "xvkbd -text '\m3'"
            Control + b:1
     "xvkbd -text '\m2'"
            Mod4 + b:1

3. Finally, make sure you run xbindkeys when you start X up! So edit your .xinitrc and make sure that xbindkeys is the first line. So my .xinitrc looks like this (I use Blackbox, but you might use Gnome or KDE, or whatever):

xbindkeys
/usr/local/bin/blackbox

4. Restart X and you should be good to go.

Thanks to Josh and Arnaud!

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - aaron

aaron — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:09:30 +0200

hi , i've googled all over but can't findout if macbook(non pro) 5th generation penryn version 4,1 works with freebsd , if anyone knows anything please reply , thanks

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - kdge

kdge — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:12:02 +0200

My Macbook didn't boot from the 7.0-Release install disk 1 (it stopped at "Starting the BTX loader"). I had to use the Bootonly iso disk and install from network. Right now it is installing things fine.

Thanks for your guide. It gave me the confidence to dual-boot (I haven't used FreeBSD since release 5).

Sony Ericsson DCU-11, MacOS X 10.4 and PhoneAgent - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:51:44 +0200

As stated by image disk name, the driver is for MacOS X 10.4 only.

Sony Ericsson DCU-11, MacOS X 10.4 and PhoneAgent - yeh_chiam

yeh_chiam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:48:51 +0200

I try to in the trtminal, and it appear this message.
"31nl_bjaelectronics_driver_PL2303 is not compatible with its superclass, 18IOSerialDriverSync superclass changed?
kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/
load failed for extension /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/

(run kextload with -t for diagnostic output)"

My Mac is OS X 10.3.9, is that any other way to do it?

[ping] Thunderbird 2 and quotas - Yet Another Linux Blog

Yet Another Linux Blog — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:58:41 +0200

4 Little Known Thunderbird Extensions

I recently searched through the mozilla thunderbird extensions website and found 4 extensions that I didn't know about that actually prove to be quite useful. I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 on Foresight Linux and have tested all of these extensions and...

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:29:54 +0200

einstiien> MacBookPro3,1 are Santa Rosa chipset based ones, the previous revision. Current revision (Perynn based one) is only 4 month old (released on february 2008), and product code is MacBookPro4,1 and FreeBSD does not work on it :)

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - einstiien

einstiien — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:44:04 +0200

I'm sorry I should have been more specific about my hardware. My Laptop is about 7 months old I believe it's the santa rosa chip but I'm not entirely sure. In system profilier it says:

MacBook Pro3,1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 Ghz

I haven't seen anything on running freebsd on the latest MB Pros, this page is actually the most information I found at all.

@Miki:
The problem with NDIS is that you cant put the card into monitor mode for using applications like airodump.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Miki

Miki — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:09:37 +0200

I was able to get the Atheros AR5008 wifi card working through NDIS:

http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.p...

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:14:59 +0200

einstiien> Did you try to boot FreeBSD from a Perynn based MacBook Pro (the last revision) ? Mine is unable to access to installer, the laptop freezes just after disks detection (the last step of dmesg). It seems it can't enable the second core of the CPU.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - einstiien

einstiien — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:23:15 +0200

Another note:

I was able to get the Atheros AR5008 wifi card working as well by using the driver located here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_...

Just unzip it into /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath

and recompile the kernel.

Again this was done with FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE

Any questions,
erick@beerngolf.com

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - einstiien

einstiien — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:07:47 +0200

For those of you trying to get FreeBSD to run on the MB pro's with the 88E8058 ethernet chipset a simple change to the module source will allow the driver to work with your card.

In /usr/src/sys/dev/msk/if_mskreg.h:
add this line:

define DEVICEID_MRVL_436A 0x436A

In /usr/src/sys/dev/msk/if_msk.c
On line 165 the definition of the struct msk_products starts. If you go down to lines 206 and 207 you will see the info for the 88E8056 Card. Duplicate those two lines and chage the DEVICEID_MRVL_4364 to DEVICEID_MRVL_436A and change the description to 88E8058.

cd /usr/src/sys/modules/msk
make
make install
reboot

This was done with FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE

If you have any questions just send me an email
erick@beerngolf.com

Thunderbird 2 and quotas - stef87

stef87 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:38:09 +0200

works for me!
i set them this way

mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold

- show = 0 
- warn = 70
- critical = 95

now i always have a little bar with a % in the lower right corner

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Josh

Josh — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:18:22 +0200

For the record, the version of the Synaptics drivers in ports (CURRENT) does _not_ work for MacBooks because it lacks the proper drivers for using the MacBook's USB trackpad.

I have, however, come up with what I think is a better method for right-clicking. The following will allow you to use control + click to right-click as in Mac OS. It will also allow you to use alt + click for a middle-click.

First you have to download and compile the xvkbd source (the version in ports is outdated, I'm going to work on fixing that). Then simply add this to you .xbindkeysrc:

      "xvkbd -text '\m3'"
             Control + b:1

      "xvkbd -text '\m2'"
             Mod4 + b:1

That should do the trick.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Chris Reaume

Chris Reaume — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:00:19 +0200

Thanks Arnaud for a great how-to!

One question though: Has anyone got the external DVI port working with X? I'm just itching to get it up on my cinema display, but nothing I've tried in the Xorg.conf has worked for me.

Thunderbird 2 and quotas - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:30:06 +0200

What does not work : showing the quota ? showing warning and critical colors ?

Did you use this trick with an IMAP account (the server must provide quota features), and did you restart Thunderbird after editing configuration ?

Thunderbird 2 and quotas - Justin

Justin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:02:47 +0200

This doesn't work.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Simon Iden

Simon Iden — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:38:42 +0100

The touchpad works out-of-the-box with Xorg synaptics driver!

A small HOWTO:
1. ./usr/port/x11-driver/synaptics/make install clean
OR portinstall synaptics
2. Add this to your xorg.conf file!
Remember to load the synaptics driver, in the
section "Module" add the following:

     Load "synaptics"

Replace section "InputDevice with:

   Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
   Driver          "synaptics"
   Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
   Option          "Device"                "/dev/ums0"
   Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
   Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
   Option          "LeftEdge"              "100"
   Option          "RightEdge"             "1120"
   Option          "TopEdge"               "50"
   Option          "BottomEdge"            "310"
   Option          "FingerLow"             "25"
   Option          "FingerHigh"            "30"
   Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "20"
   Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "50"
   Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.79"
   Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.88"
   Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.0015"
   #    Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
   EndSection

Thank you for a wonderful guide.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:51:16 +0100

I also encounter geometry error at the partitioning stage, but ignoring them does not prevent me to continue installation. Installation fails you encounter may come from another issue.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Josh

Josh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:12:01 +0100

Sigh, actually nevermind. The geometry it provides me is the same one that the installer guesses and which fails...