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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).

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

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.

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...

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

Josh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:00:58 +0100

Oops, my mistake. A simple fdisk on my MacBook from OS X gives me my harddrive geometry. :)

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

Josh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:23 +0100

Great readme! Very simple and easy to follow.

I am encountering a problem, however, when attempting to install on my MacBood CD. When at the partitioning stage I'm running into the disk geometry error. If I ignore it and attempt to continue with the installation it fails and occasionally hoses my partition map. I'll admit I'm a newbie when it comes to BSD and I've never had to deal with disk geometries in OS X or Linux in the past, so I really have no idea how to fix it, but from the sound of things all I really need to do is tell it what the correct geometry is.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem so that I can install FreeBSD on my MacBook?

Merci beaucoup.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - R.

R. — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:43:06 +0100

Well, that's it, I tried with the console when I was installing last weekend, but no eject command yet :( I'll Install base system and then apps...

Thnx for your quick answer, Arnaud

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

Arnaud Boudou — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:27:41 +0100

Yes, it's a problem with CD install : the eject button is software mapped to the eject mechanism, and the installer does not provide this mapping. You may check if switching to F4 console allow you the eject command. If not, you won't have any choice left and install FreeBSD and its applications from network or just install FreeBSD from CD, and install applications later.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - R.

R. — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:46:26 +0100

Hi, Arnaud, great HOWTO, really impressive...

I'm a great fan of FreeBSD, is secure, fast, and a beautiful OS from any point of view. I've been trying to install it on my Core 2 duo Macbook, I've trying to do a "no return" install, I mean only FeeBsd, no dual boot, but I've got this lame problem: I Couldn't get to finish the installation, because I couldn't eject the cd's when Installer asked me to do (3 cd's distro, no DVD install as far as I know)...

pls help....

greetings from Chile

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

Arnaud Boudou — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:13:32 +0100

As said on BSDForums (message #13), and into this how-to, the driver to use is if_msk and not if_myk (this one is the closed source driver from Marvell). Nevertheless, the “88E8058” chipset may not be supported by if_msk.

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

Andrej — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:47:14 +0100

Hi,

thanks for the nice information here.

Yet, I have some strange problems with FreeBSD and MacBook that are not adressed here. If you want to, have a look here:

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/sho...

Greets,
Andrej

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

Arnaud Boudou — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:48:42 +0100

About WIFI driver, I never used ndis wrapper, then I won't be able to help you.
About GMA X3100, it may be X.org which does not support this chipset, but it may also be FreeBSD DRM driver too. You should look to FreeBSD and X.org man pages to check about support.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [rmz]

[rmz] — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:24:30 +0100

Arnaud, i have already install 7.0-release on my macbook. my WiFi adapter with broadcom chipset still not working, now i want to buy a supported usb adapter (i think about Linksys WUSB54GP supporeted by ural driver). on 6.3-release i tryed to use windows broadcom driver converted by NDIS, but after converting and load driver into kernel, i can't scan for available networks (i used "ifconfig list scan" command). When i try to load converted windows driver in 7.0-release, the system halted, and show me a error message. And about X... i configure the xorg by xorgconfig, like you wrote (i choose i810 driver and etc.), but when i start X, the system shows me a message, thats 'no screens found'. maybe X11R6 don't have driver for GMA X3100???

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Segnale007

Segnale007 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:28:20 +0100

I have installed PC-BSD 1.4.1 on my macbook 2,1 core 2 duo, it is same than FreeBSD 6.3 PRERELEASE .. I have setted up X, mouse, and ethernet, everything working well on it except the wireless card . my wireless card is an Atheros AR5008 .. the native atheros driver if_ath.ko doesn't work with this card, and I need to use the binary driver of windows with ndis.. The problem is, I don't succeed to find it .. Someone can help me to find it ?? Thanks ..

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

Arnaud Boudou — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:24:23 +0100

[rmz] : if you can't configure a wireless LAN, you may have the possibility to burn disc1, disc2 and disc3 images, then set your optical drive as source instead of an FTP server.

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:40:38 +0100

I have no idea. I generally use “dmesg | more” to look at boot messages.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [rmz]

[rmz] — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:52:38 +0100

Arnaud, what combination of keys on apple keyboard is used as 'scroll lock', for view detected devices

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:10:36 +0100

It's not a Windows support forum, thanks…

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Ahmad Reshad

Ahmad Reshad — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:05:58 +0100

I have got lots of nessesary staff in my memory stick and i want to use the stick in my Office PC which is restricted by administrator law. So can anybody help me out that i may be able to open my stick in a restricted user account.. it might have a trick to open stick in a restricted user acount.. thanks

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [rmz]

[rmz] — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:59:31 +0100

I have FBSD 6.3, maybe in this release it works...however, i will be trying. Because, it will very bad if i can't configure wireless lan

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

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:42:55 +0100

With FreeBSD 6.2, it was not possible to configure WLAN from sysinstall (the adapter was detected, but it was not possible to choose any network). I'm waiting for FreeBSD 7.0 to update this how-to.

If you have a Core 2 Duo MacBook, you may not be able to use the embeded WLAN adapter because I don't think there is a driver for the Broadcom chipset (First gen MacBook, with Core Duo processors used an Atheros chispet with available drivers).

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [rmz]

[rmz] — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:40:25 +0100

Thanks, and one more question. How i can configure a wireless lan it's possible to do from sysinstall

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

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:27:23 +0100

You have to press and hold ‘alt’ key until you get the boot menu. If you don't have any CD-ROM visible, you may check the following :

- You must have the last firmware upgrade for your MacBook
- You may try to burn an Ubuntu CD-ROM and check if you can boot on it.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [rmz]

[rmz] — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:34:13 +0100

Maybe i should press and hold 'alt' key, not simulationly

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [rmz]

[rmz] — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:45:59 +0100

May somebody help me, please. I burn FreeBSD 6.3 iso disk1 on a blank CD, then i reboot computer and simulationly press "alt" key, but all that i can boot, it's "MacOS HD", nothing CD-ROM

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:16:04 +0100

With MacOS X 10.4.x : you may be able to burn a disc with drivers when you start BootCamp Assistant.

With MacOS X 10.5.x : MacOS X install DVD contains Windows' drivers.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Ahmad Reshad

Ahmad Reshad — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:24:53 +0100

Hello everybody,
Please anybody write me a link that i would be able to download Macbook drivers... i really need it.. thanks

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

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:16:24 +0100

Yes, it works : take a look at : http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacboo...

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [RMZ]

[RMZ] — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:04:58 +0100

and one more question about the CD eject button, it works normally without MacOS?

Once again, many thanks for the help

Best regards

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

Arnaud Boudou — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:42:48 +0100

If you remove MacOS slice, it should be possible to use all disk space (except for the first 200MB partition dedicated to EFI) for FreeBSD. EFI BIOS emulation should be able to detect and boot from FreeBSD partition, but I think you'll have to leave “Alt” key pressed while booting your MacBook in order to detect and select FreeBSD disk.

About Windows bootable disk, I don't have any idea of what it will detect or not.

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [RMZ]

[RMZ] — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:06:29 +0100

I want to uninstall MacOS first, because i want that the slice of FreeBSD used a full volume of hard drive. And interesting...if insert a bootable disk with windows (for example), did setup show an unknown partition of MacOS, or It can not be started??

P.S.

Sorry, for my bad english, and thank's for the help...you won`t believe, I have not found any discussion on russian sites about installation freeBSD on macbook

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

Arnaud Boudou — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:23:37 +0100

I think it's possible, but I didn't tried. You may try at your own risk :)

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - [RMZ]

[RMZ] — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:53:59 +0100

Hi, i want to ask about freeBSD, may i delete a MacOS, after installing FreeBSD??

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Ahmad Reshad

Ahmad Reshad — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:32:13 +0100

I have got an Apple Macbook and few days back i installed Windows XP in it. After the installation the sound, VGA, Lan and all other components doesnt work and needs for the relevant driver and unfortunately i have lost the drivers. So can any body help me how to download the sound and VGA drivers for my macbook??? thanks

FreeBSD sur MacBook (modèles Core Duo et Core 2 Duo) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:57:39 +0100

Bonjour,

Pour le problème de pilote msk sour FreeBSD 7.0, il y a peut-être une solution ici : http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacboo... (en tout cas, il semblerait que le contrôleur soit au moins supporté a minima)

Quand à mon dernier essai de FreeBSD 7.0, il remonte à l'époque ou il n'était pas encore entré en beta, et l'installeur plantait dès le lancement.

Ce billet sera mis à jour pour la version 7.0 (pas la 6.3) quand elle sera disponible en RELEASE.

FreeBSD sur MacBook (modèles Core Duo et Core 2 Duo) - druidez

druidez — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:48:32 +0100

Bonjour,

J'ai un core 2 duo.
J'ai essayer Freebsd 7 et le pilote "msk0" qui est censer supporter la carte ne marche pas :( Le pilote proprio marvell est pour la 6.2 et pas encore de pilote pour le wifi.

Tu as une astuce pour utiliser freebsd 7 sur un core 2 duo macbook ?
Le pilote msk0 marche pour toi ?

Merci d'avance. Vivement l'update de ton poste pour la 6.3/7

Libre vs Propriétaire : être manichéen ou pragmatique ? - AeM

AeM — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:47:23 +0100

bah, les 3ème et 4ème catégories sont tout autant valables...
un bref exemple, la pile tcp/ip de base bsd dans windows 2000
ou encore apache httpd intégré à oracle, ibm websphere ou lotus :)

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

Jens — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:42:16 +0100

Many Thanks, your HOWTO was a great help!

Here is another interesting website: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacboo...

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:30:05 +0100

I don't know. Maybe FreeBSD 7.0 will detect this chipset.

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

minanube — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:20:01 +0100

can freeBSD detec GPU X 3100 on new macbook santa rosa

Libre vs Propriétaire : être manichéen ou pragmatique ? - stom

stom — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:32:41 +0100

AMHA... Tout n'est pas tout blanc ou tout noir, on peut reconnaitre les qualités d'un logiciel propriétaire sans pour autant avoir vendu son ame (au diable) - Mais par défaut on peut tout de meme partir du principe qu'un logiciel libre faisant aussi bien, mieux ou apportant qquechose de nouveau sera profitable ;)

CQFD... 4ème option pour moi!
(Meme si je me laisse parfois un peu aveugler par le "tout libre")

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models) - Juan José del Río

Juan José del Río — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:08:38 +0100

I have been able to make MacBook's touchpad work on X (it works perfectly in console mode).

To make it work in X.org , change your mouse section in your xorg.conf so it contains:

Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"

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

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:29:40 +0200

Core 2 Duo and AMD processors share the same instruction set for 32 bits and 64 bit instructions. If you want to use 64 bit, it may be useful to use a AMD64 build (but it won't be covered by this how-to).

For 32 bit installation, using an i386 build is needed for both Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors.

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

Chascon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:22:45 +0200

Actually the core2duo is AMD based while the Intel Duo Core (Yonah) apparently not.

Chascon

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

Chascon — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:04:35 +0200

You really should be using an AMD build as the it seems all MacBook Pro Intel chips are really AMDs. They use the AMD instruction set. Read a little on it at http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_instal...

This might take care of the occasional hard reboots you mention.
Chascon

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

Kim — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:18:31 +0200

Sound: I can confirm snd_RELENG_6_yyyymmdd_xxx_vpc.diff.gz compiles and works (I use 20070712_281_vpc).

FreeBSD sur MacBook (modèles Core Duo et Core 2 Duo) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:48:31 +0200

Je ferai l'essai quand je remettrai à jour ce tuto pour FreeBSD 6.3 ou 7.0, selon le premier à sortir.

En tout cas, merci pour la piste de recherche.

FreeBSD sur MacBook (modèles Core Duo et Core 2 Duo) - Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:57:28 +0200

Au niveau du son, les pilotes FreeBSD sont rarement très avancés... je suis curieux de savoir ce que ça donne sur ce MacBook si tu te passes de snd_hda.ko et que tu installes plutôt audio/oss ? (http://www.freshports.org/audio/oss...)

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

Arnaud Boudou — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:09:16 +0200

For you sound issues, you may try with “snd_RELENG_6_yyyymmdd_xxx_vpc.diff.gz” patches, which seems to replaces lowlatency drivers.

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

Kim — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:30:31 +0200

Great post: thanks. Happily using FreeBSD on my MacBook now.

About audio: it seems like snd_RELENG_6_20070522_172_lowlatency.diff (the diffs are now in old/) results in kernel compilation errors... There is also a set of precompiled modules in lowlatency/, but that did not work for me. End result is I do not have sound as of now.

Apache 2, PHP and FreeBSD: traps to avoid (and other tricks) - Mark

Mark — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:16:20 +0200

Wow, this is really useful. You have it all here in one place.

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

Arnaud Boudou — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:45:07 +0200

about fan : I had never hear fans with MacOS X, and could not hear them with FreeBSD. I suppose they are correctly handled.

about microphone : see previous comments, I didn't have tested microphones and plan to do it soon. I just have to reinstall FreeBSD.

about kubuntu : I think you may use your kubuntu partitions to install FreeBSD : just remove them then create a new FreeBSD slice. You may still use rEFIt as it “see” FreeBSD partitions.

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

vandetta — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:31:46 +0200

Good, your info does give me a lot of info dude!
I installed kUbuntu in my MacBook and I look foward to install BSD in it. Just I am curious about fan in MacBook, does BSD handle fan correctly?
And how about microphone, and if I from kUbuntu, how to re-install BSD, can I keep on using rEFIt, or I need to re-partition my Mac?

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

Arnaud Boudou — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:46:29 +0200

I didn't test the microphone as I had completely forgotten its existence. I'll test it as soon as possible, then update this how-to.

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

garden — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:22:57 +0200

Uhm... the microphone works?

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:38:34 +0200

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to help you, as I can't reproduce the issue. Maybe a problem with FreeBSD boot loader, rEfit and the partition scheme.

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

adriano — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:26:40 +0200

Ok, all the updates are installed on my mac!!!
I have also a partition, where I had my Debian and rEfit for the boot...
About the ditribution, I tried firstly with the 6.2-RELEASE!!! (the one that blocks on the boot loader!)

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:39:51 +0200

I've just downloaded and tried 200704 snapshots for FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE and 7.0-CURRENT.

FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE : I get no issue and can get to the installer. Did you install all firmware updates for your MacBook ?

FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT : The panic you get at boot is covered into “FreeBSD use, and detailed setup” section of this post. You just have to press power button when you get the "ACPI APIC Table: <APPLE Apple00>” line. Then the MacBook can boot to the installer, which core dump while probing devices. 7.0-CURRENT is unusable now.

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

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:54:45 +0200

I'm sorry, but I just use a plain 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD CD :)

About FreeBSD 6.2 : Could you try with a 6.2-RELEASE instead of a 6.2-STABLE ?

About FreeBSD 7.0 : I didn't try with this version, then I don't know if it works or not. But you may try to start without ACPI to check if you can get to the installer.

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

Adriano — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:31:59 +0200

Ok, but can I have your freebsd cd/dvd??? :(
I downloaded the 6.2 stable and the boot loader doesn't start at all
Then I tried with the latest snapshot (7.0), ok at least it boots, but during the probing test (at the beginning of the install process) the debugger starts...
...there's a kernel panic telling me "Going nowhere without my init!"
Quite nice!!!
I was forgotten also that the default configuration (Always the latest 7.0 snapshot) doesn't run because of the ACPI...

p.s.: I am using a macbook core duo! White, 2.0 Ghz...

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

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:00:26 +0200

I have specified it, look for "KERNCONF=MYCOMPUTER" within chapter related to world rebuild :)

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

maple — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:31:01 +0200

you may want to specify that you need to have 'KERNCONF=KERNELCONFIGFILE" to make sure and rebuild the correct kernel

Great job

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

sim — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:13:16 +0200

Fantastic HOWTO! I don't have a MacBook but seeing this article makes me more confident about choosing one as my next laptop. :)

Libre vs Propriétaire : être manichéen ou pragmatique ? - pioy

pioy — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:24:25 +0100

3 vues ?

Ajoutons une 4e alors ; )
On peut tout à fait défendre le logiciel libre et reconnaitre les qualité de certains proprios. Par ex. beaucoup considèrent les jeux réalisés par mille milliards de graphistes comme beaux ; c'est mon cas et ça n'empêche en rien de défendre le libre : ce ne sont pas seulement quelques logiciels valables mais un principe.

Donc, certains se battent pour des principes - sont ils aveugles ? ou la cécité en toucherait elle d autres...

Apache 2, PHP et FreeBSD : les pièges à éviter (et autres astuces) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:31:57 +0100

Au niveau des requêtes, Apache n'est pas le facteur limitant, mais MySQL. Pour ce dernier, comme indiqué dans le billet, au delà de 30 connexions simultanée il ne peut plus rien faire. Mais ce problème semble spécifique à FreeBSD.

Apache 2, PHP et FreeBSD : les pièges à éviter (et autres astuces) - Nicolas BUI

Nicolas BUI — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:11:35 +0100

Pour l'instant j'ai opté pour un MPM worker avec une configuration a base de suPHP ... Cela semble fonctionner. Grâce à ces informations, j'éviterais de passer a PHP 5.1 pour l'instant ! Merci !

Juste une question, quel est la charge supporté dans les cas que tu préconises ?

[ping] FreeBSD sur MacBook (modèles Core Duo et Core 2 Duo) - Gribouille skrisss

Gribouille *skrisss* — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:55:58 +0100

Mouarf, ca sent le coding tout

Par contre, j'ai été fantasmé sur les MacBooks, ce sont des petites beautés! J'ai été faire un tour pour voir si ils étaient "potentiellement" compatible avec Unix(freeBSD)/Linux(Gentoo/Debian)...

Apache 2, PHP et FreeBSD : les pièges à éviter (et autres astuces) - Hitoride

Hitoride — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:17:14 +0100

Un grand merci pour ce billet d'information vraiment utile...
Cela me permettra de configurer mes serveurs plus efficacement :)

Apache 2, PHP et FreeBSD : les pièges à éviter (et autres astuces) - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:36:48 +0200

Concernant APC Cache, c'est celui avec lequel j'ai eu le plus de problèmes. C'est pour cela que je ne l'ai pas mentionné.

Apache 2, PHP et FreeBSD : les pièges à éviter (et autres astuces) - Florian

Florian — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:30:50 +0200

Merci beaucoup pour ces informations aussi utiles que pertinentes.

Il faut aussi penser à APC Cache (ports FreeBSD : www/pecl-APC) pour les accélérateurs PHP. Il n'est pas mal du tout !

Tout a une fin, un jour - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:32:28 +0200

Ce n'est pas le disque dur qui a eu des problèmes dernièrement, mais l'alim du serveur :)

Mais c'est vrai que 4 trucs qui lâchent, dont 3 associés au serveur en 3 semaines, ça fait lourd à force.

Tout a une fin, un jour - David Latapie

David Latapie — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:30:38 +0200

Ben entre ton frigo, ton clavier, ton disque dur et ton onduleur, tu peux démarrer une petite entreprise. « Les ordi du c?ur » ?

Tout a une fin, un jour - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:28:39 +0200

"solidaire", peut-être, mais il ne faut pas compter sur moi pour ouvrir un resto du coeur.

Tout a une fin, un jour - David Latapie

David Latapie — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:27:07 +0200

On ne dit pas « ingrat », on dit « solidaire dans l?adversité » ;-)

Le vrac du jour - David Latapie

David Latapie — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:12:19 +0100

Intéressant, le parallèle entre la Peste Noire et le SIDA.

Vé, c?est plus méchant Black Death, sûrement grâce au th [surtout si on le prononce correctement : blak daif, bof, blak dea? (entre le z et le f), c?est mieux].

En revanche, peste en général, c?est plague si l?on parle de la maladie ou pest si on en parle au (plus-ou-moins) figuré, comme les rats ou une « petite peste », un enfant chiant.

Bon, je retourne aux faux-amis en anglais (fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fau... moi.

Jamais deux sans trois - Arnaud Boudou

Arnaud Boudou — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:00:25 +0200

Sûrement une coquille, je n'ai pas l'habitude de mettre des points dans les titres :)

Jamais deux sans trois - David Latapie

David Latapie — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:58:48 +0200

Tu mets des points dans tes titres ou c'est une coquille ?

Mes précieuses... - xorq

xorq — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:30:23 +0100

Ce n'est de posseder ou d'avoir posseder de nombreuses machines qui font de quelqu'un un Geek mais d'arriver a les citer de mémoire oui par contre ;o)

Pourquoi FreeBSD ? - marc[i1]

marc[i1] — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:03:50 +0100

Bonjour,
je découvre ton blog grâce à David Latapie, j'avais déjà l'envie de faire une passerelle sous FreeBSD et après la lecture de ton billet, cette envie ne se trouve que renforcée ...
Surtout que mon essai avec FreeSBIE m'a vraiment enchanté.

@ bientôt ...

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