From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7481381F3 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 634CDE0ABE; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 555ACE0A9D for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D6B123E4 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:09:12 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1382515752; bh=ua/eoqFJ10435CDZH59fiPHpE7lyhGWhr5Y0TKiazC0=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject; b=nvwATuXDpaxOshBXdUR1tDvi8lQgKnjm8HMMDZqQ7wrgXD1m3mvyIQkuiqae91l1+ yqlHJhX7IUSXEcebJ4pYs/MPj7bldfiih5Nh7nOiSdIGjZ9zJ7ieoS7FgtDuhTiRCB f04fyBCJ0AQWFijL+ROY6DNM331TLsNF9I39fIwg= Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 12725-10 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:09:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hiro.oops.intern (unknown [IPv6:2001:15c0:65ff:8742:15b8:76f6:f08c:2d75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D1D9123DF for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:09:10 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1382515750; bh=ua/eoqFJ10435CDZH59fiPHpE7lyhGWhr5Y0TKiazC0=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject; b=P2ELKEO5SY8NpRp6jD+MecuX4xhNv21PGxZZ3mvbSZHTgMpBQ7lU93skRQCTAZwnJ EDXeDcQFtn33buvZtLi7yUwTdeLKb1WvfEToM1iK+pOMok93I5G4MdXTVRY5YwEpWE mX3uM8+T4BQmdwPVwGczs0i25ocBInHsMrRbdgek= Message-ID: <52678425.1020801@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:09:09 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] MacBook Air (A1237) and Gentoo Linux X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2c X-Archives-Salt: 79d73f97-a19a-4de4-8005-3c088ce4d164 X-Archives-Hash: de331b00592c0c17160ae3fd5827fea1 I recently got access to an older MacBook Air (from 2008 or so). The model number is A1237, it brings a Core2Duo CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd ... So I got motivated and installed refind as a help to boot from live-media (USB-stick as there is no cdrom) ... in turn resized the hfs-partition and transplanted some gentoo-installation in there. I am pretty much satisfied with my efforts so far: refind lets me chose GRUB2 ... ok, I somehow managed to configure it in a way so that it does not find its grub.cfg yet. Call it a security feature ;-) -> I have to manually tell it where to read that file every time booting ... I will figure out. After that I can boot gentoo and in turn also Gnome-3.8 ... fine. Does anyone of you gentoo-users also run gentoo on such a hardware? my todos are (for now): * I only got the harddisk detected via IDE/PATA (so it is hda and not sda now). It should be accessible via AHCI as well, but that didn't work yet (and I expect some more performance via AHCI). * Sound via pulseaudio: not there yet ... no errors, devices displayed correctly, but no sound. * suspend to ram in gnome: got to check that * right clicks with touchpad ... yes, sure, it's not the most powerful hardware anymore but it might be some inbetween-device for me: better to write and surf than my tablets ... but lighter and easier to carry than my thinkpad. And it's fun to run gentoo on it ;-) Stefan