[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-02-28, Robert J. King <peritus@rajking.net> wrote:

> It is done often.  Writing this on an 24" Intel iMac running
> Gentoo w/ kde.  Just a few gotchas that I ran into:
>
> 1.  The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac
>     partition patch.  Simple update of portage and then grub
>     fixes this.

Do the livecds now use grub?  I thought they used syslinux.
Maybe I'm thinking of a different livecd.

> 2.  Nvidia binary drivers seem to have a bug that will turn
>     off the screen everytime you either close X11 or switch to
>     a VC.  The screen comes back on when you go back to X by
>     CTRL+Fn unless you have shutdown X11.  If that is the
>     case, then you have to restart it by typing blindly or
>     ssh'ing in from another machine.  I haven't found a fix
>     for this yet.  Not sure if this pertains to the mac mini
>     they might be using ATI.

The Minis now use an Intel GMA 950.  Linux driver support is
supposed to be pretty good.  Not sure if it includes XvMC or
not, but a 1.8GHz core2 duo should be able to handle ATSC HD
playback without it.

> Good info at:  http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Apple_Macbook_Pro
>
> If you plan on installing to the hard drive I recommend
> keeping a small OSX partition (for firmware updates and stuff
> from apple) and using rEFIt as a boot manager.
> http://refit.sourceforge.net This is how I have it set up and
> its working well.

The first choice would be USB or network.  I'd like to shut
down the hard-drive.

-- 
Grant