[gobolinux-users] 014 on Macbooks?

[Carlo Calica]

On 10/13/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
> > On 10/13/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Did anybody try 014 snapshots on Apple Intel hardware? I remember
> > > reading on the wiki that 013 needed a number of workarounds to work; I
> > > wonder how is 014 doing in this respect. Any feedback and suggestions
> > > are welcome.
> > >
> >
> > I just ran the LiveCD on my macbook.  I noticed no major issues.  Of
> > course wifi didn't work but that isn't a surprise.  The LCD wasn't
> > native res but that's also expected.  I didn't try suspend/resume but
> > I doubt it'll work without Xorg 7.3.
> >
> > What are the chances of having Xorg 7.3?  That'll allow native res
> > without the 915resolution hack.  Also 2.6.23 has the right /sys
> > entries so ACPI modules autoload.  that might be nice.
> My i915 works fine in 1280x800 without 915resolution on Xorg 7.2, so
> long as xorg.conf has the right settings in it. Deleting the mode
> lines actually worked for me, and it was detected correctly
> automatically. Give it a try.
>
1280x800 must already be defined in your BIOS.  In 7.2, mode setting
is done by the BIOS and mode lines are pretty much ignored (for
Intel).  915resolution just patches the BIOS so any resolution mode
can be calculated.

> I think getting 014 out with the packages it's got is better. Anything
> with Xorg 7.3 shouldn't be released until that DBus freezing issue is
> sorted out, anyway.

I don't disagree.

-- 
Carlo J. Calica