From: James V. <ja...@va...> - 2008-05-28 06:06:26
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Hi, I'm running Hardy 64-bit on a 2 week old MBP 4,1 and I'm going to report my successes and failures. This machine is fresh off the line because I customised the specs, so it may have slightly new/different hardware (BCNM4382 rev 05 for example). Overall: success! I'm going to write a comprehensive guide as soon as I get this all settled so I can save everyone else following me some time. The things I thought would be a pain worked perfectly almost immediately (wifi, 3d, backlight, temps, fans) but I had a couple surprises for things I still can't get working which I thought would work out of the box (sound and bluetooth). ========================== First, things that didn't work: ========================== Sound: Detected, and no errors on play, but no sound! My instincts tell me this is a mixing problem, because this is a perfectly stable driver and I am not getting any errors - just silence. It's just an Intel HDA / Realtek ALC885. I have used this driver on other machines with no problem at all. All my volumes are up in alsamixergui and nothing is muted. Yet..not a peep from either the speakers or the headphone jack. Sound is fine in OS X. Any hints? I'm going to continue playing with mixer stuff. Bluetooth: I thought this would work fine with the default usb_hci drivers. Every MBP 4,1 FAQ seems to indicate it does.. but I can't scan any devices. It is found on bootup, and I get a gnome bluetooth icon. hcitool scan says this: Scanning ... Inquiry failed: Connection timed out hcitool dev: Devices: hci0 00:1F:F3:A4:58:70 dmesg is this: [ 37.940385] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 [ 37.953542] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 37.953546] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 38.553893] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9 [ 42.595312] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9 [ 42.595320] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 42.689422] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 42.689444] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 42.689447] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 lsusb: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. OS X scans bluetooth fine. I am really surprised by this one. It's a very standard chipset. Any hints? ========================== Things that worked: ========================== Mactel patches for 2.6.25 / compiled newest pommed (hardy repos pommed doesn't like the MBP 4,1) Backlight control works, accelerometer is detected, but pommed doesn't init the sound card. I think it might be looking for an older one? Not sure if pommed is required for the Intel HDA / Realtek ALC885's. Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05) BCM4832 using ndiswrapper Because I am rev 05, I had to use the driver on the apple rescue CD instead of the dell ones many FAQ's talk about. Even though I'm using 64-bit, I didn't use the windows 64-bit driver (it didn't work) - I used the one labeled "XP". I opened this .EXE with 7zip on another windows box to get the appropriate inf and sys files out of it. To my surprise, noencrypt, WEP, and WPA all work perfectly and the signal quality is great and connections are reliable. I thought this was going to be the worst part but it was fine. Nvidia GeForce drivers using the EnvyNG package in Hardy - these drivers are pretty nice compared to most manufacturer's support. compiz and emerald are running very nicely. I suppose power throttling could be a little nicer in these drivers (they seem to be stuck on full throttle), but lets hope that support comes out soon. Multi-touch with gestures: using Scott Shawcrawft's touchd. What can I say- this guy is a hero. Battery information: Fine. iSight: haven't tried yet. ==================== Please comment on my sound and bluetooth issues if you have any ideas! Thanks! James |
From: Ludwig 'K. N. <lu...@no...> - 2008-05-28 06:35:28
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James Vautin a écrit : > Hi, Hi, > > I'm running Hardy 64-bit on a 2 week old MBP 4,1 and I'm going to report > my successes and failures. This machine is fresh off the line because I > customised the specs, so it may have slightly new/different hardware > (BCNM4382 rev 05 for example). Overall: success! MBP 4,1 running Debian Etch 64 bits. > > I'm going to write a comprehensive guide as soon as I get this all > settled so I can save everyone else following me some time. > > The things I thought would be a pain worked perfectly almost immediately > (wifi, 3d, backlight, temps, fans) but I had a couple surprises for > things I still can't get working which I thought would work out of the > box (sound and bluetooth). > > ========================== > First, things that didn't work: > ========================== > > Sound: Detected, and no errors on play, but no sound! My instincts tell > me this is a mixing problem, because this is a perfectly stable driver > and I am not getting any errors - just silence. > > It's just an Intel HDA / Realtek ALC885. I have used this driver on > other machines with no problem at all. All my volumes are up in > alsamixergui and nothing is muted. Yet..not a peep from either the > speakers or the headphone jack. Sound is fine in OS X. Any hints? I'm > going to continue playing with mixer stuff. > > > Bluetooth: I thought this would work fine with the default usb_hci > drivers. Every MBP 4,1 FAQ seems to indicate it does.. but I can't scan > any devices. It is found on bootup, and I get a gnome bluetooth icon. > hcitool scan says this: > > Scanning ... > Inquiry failed: Connection timed out > > hcitool dev: > Devices: > hci0 00:1F:F3:A4:58:70 > > > dmesg is this: > > [ 37.940385] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 > [ 37.953542] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized > [ 37.953546] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized > [ 38.553893] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9 > [ 42.595312] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9 > [ 42.595320] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized > [ 42.689422] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized > [ 42.689444] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized > [ 42.689447] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 > > lsusb: > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. > > OS X scans bluetooth fine. > > I am really surprised by this one. It's a very standard chipset. Any > hints? I've no device to test with so I'll test ASAP :/ > > ========================== > Things that worked: > ========================== > > Mactel patches for 2.6.25 / compiled newest pommed (hardy repos pommed > doesn't like the MBP 4,1) > Backlight control works, accelerometer is detected, but pommed doesn't > init the sound card. I think it might be looking for an older one? Not > sure if pommed is required for the Intel HDA / Realtek ALC885's. Works fine on 2.6.24.5, maybe this could do the trick: First of all, do not apply sigma* patches from mactel, ensure snd-hda-intel is compiled as a module and add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base: options snd-hda-intel model=mbp3 You can do this on the fly by removing/inserting sound modules after this step. In order to pommed correctly manage mixer values, in /etc/pommed.conf, change the audio part as follow: # Audio support audio { # Use amixer or alsamixer/alsamixergui to determine the sound card # and the mixer elements to use here. # sound card to use card = "hw" # initial volume [80] (0 - 100%, -1 to disable) init = 80 # step value (1 - 50%) step = 10 # beep on volume change beep = yes # mixer element for volume adjustment volume = "Master" # mixer element for muting the speakers speakers = "Master" # mixer element for muting the headphones headphones = "Master" } Finally, just restart pommed with: /etc/init.d/pommed restart > > Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05) > BCM4832 using ndiswrapper Because I am rev 05, I had to use the driver > on the apple rescue CD instead of the dell ones many FAQ's talk about. > Even though I'm using 64-bit, I didn't use the windows 64-bit driver (it > didn't work) - I used the one labeled "XP". I opened this .EXE with 7zip > on another windows box to get the appropriate inf and sys files out of > it. To my surprise, noencrypt, WEP, and WPA all work perfectly and the > signal quality is great and connections are reliable. I thought this was > going to be the worst part but it was fine. Works perfectly on unencrypted networks with both manual way and network-manager, but some DHCP requests failure on encrypted networks with network-manager (WEP/WPA). I used the same windows 32 bits driver labeled XP. > > Nvidia GeForce drivers using the EnvyNG package in Hardy - these drivers > are pretty nice compared to most manufacturer's support. compiz and > emerald are running very nicely. I suppose power throttling could be a > little nicer in these drivers (they seem to be stuck on full throttle), > but lets hope that support comes out soon. > > Multi-touch with gestures: using Scott Shawcrawft's touchd. What can I > say- this guy is a hero. Some dependencies problems on Debian Etch with libopenusb, will retry later :) > > Battery information: Fine. > > iSight: haven't tried yet. Works out of the box with linux-uvc last svn revision, it doesn't need firmware anymore. In order to test with mplayer, I changed the vo value to xv in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and added this line in ~/.mplayer/config: tv=driver=v4l2:input=1:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:outfmt=uyvy:fps=24 Then launched mplayer as follow: mplayer tv:// > > ==================== > > Please comment on my sound and bluetooth issues if you have any ideas! > > Thanks! > > James Regards, -- Ludwig 'Kn' Noujarret lu...@no... |
From: cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> - 2008-05-28 13:14:22
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ludwig 'Kn' Noujarret wrote: | James Vautin a écrit : |> Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05) |> BCM4832 using ndiswrapper Because I am rev 05, I had to use the driver |> on the apple rescue CD instead of the dell ones many FAQ's talk about. |> Even though I'm using 64-bit, I didn't use the windows 64-bit driver (it |> didn't work) - I used the one labeled "XP". I opened this .EXE with 7zip |> on another windows box to get the appropriate inf and sys files out of |> it. To my surprise, noencrypt, WEP, and WPA all work perfectly and the |> signal quality is great and connections are reliable. I thought this was |> going to be the worst part but it was fine. | | Works perfectly on unencrypted networks with both manual way and | network-manager, but some DHCP requests failure on encrypted networks | with network-manager (WEP/WPA). I used the same windows 32 bits driver | labeled XP. | The other driver set are Vista drivers and they do not work. There are 64bit XP drivers in the XP package in addition to the 32bit drivers. The same inf file will install either. |> iSight: haven't tried yet. | | Works out of the box with linux-uvc last svn revision, it doesn't need | firmware anymore. In order to test with mplayer, I changed the vo value | to xv in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and added this line in ~/.mplayer/config: | tv=driver=v4l2:input=1:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:outfmt=uyvy:fps=24 | | Then launched mplayer as follow: | mplayer tv:// I guess this is confirmed then on the newer MacBook Pros now? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFIPVqbutzrk6q7ljoRAhbBAJ494Pg6ux0N3TtU83pt+rfY/RGe6ACgnRXi VnVBGgdm15WR92F7ixPlYqM= =p9PP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Ludwig 'K. N. <lu...@no...> - 2008-05-30 06:43:42
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James Vautin a écrit : > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 09:35 +0300, Ludwig 'Kn' Noujarret wrote: > >> Works perfectly on unencrypted networks with both manual way and >> network-manager, but some DHCP requests failure on encrypted networks >> with network-manager (WEP/WPA). I used the same windows 32 bits driver >> labeled XP. > > > What version of wpa_supplicant does etch come with? (wpa_supplicant -v) > > I am using wpa_supplicant v0.5.8 > > Someone told me that I would need to be running version 0.5.10 to do WPA > with ndiswrapper and bcm4328 - but v0.5.8 works fine for me. I'm > wondering if you're using an older version which might be affecting your > WPA sync. I'm using 0.5.5, so I'll try to either compile last version or try to backport the one from Lenny and report the results here. > > Thanks for your pointers!! I just got sound working finally. I just needed to add that line to alsa-base. I'll try iSight tonight. In fact, with iSight, still have some issue I didn't notice earlier, I have to initialize it once via the skype webcam test before I can use it in mplayer. Probably some missing value in my mplayer config, will check this week end. > > I'm going to write up a howto for most of this stuff soon. It feels like > you have to get all this information from 3 or 4 sources - there isn't > quit anything comprehensive out there. I think it'll be welcomed on mactel wiki :) Regards, -- Ludwig 'Kn' Noujarret lu...@no... |
From: cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...> - 2008-05-30 15:10:02
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Someone posted this in the Ubuntu forums today. Seems that ndiswrapper might be to blame: From the Change-Log the last point might solve the problem? * Implemented va_list conversion for x86_64, which fixes oops in vsprintf() and vsnprintf(). * Fixed oops on unload if using our workqueue implementation with SMP enabled. * Don't change the actual thread priority, just pretend it was changed. * Implemented format string conversion for x86_64, so that Windows long is mapped to Linux int. * Fixed most sparse warnings. * Simplified code and build system to remove already broken support for Linux versions prior to 2.6.16. * Added .size and .type for all functions in win2lin_stubs.S to improve backtrace on x86_64. * Fixed rx key authentication sequence number conversion from Windows to Linux so WPA authentication doesn't sometimes go into re-key auth loop. Ludwig 'Kn' Noujarret wrote: > James Vautin a écrit : >> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 09:35 +0300, Ludwig 'Kn' Noujarret wrote: >> >>> Works perfectly on unencrypted networks with both manual way and >>> network-manager, but some DHCP requests failure on encrypted networks >>> with network-manager (WEP/WPA). I used the same windows 32 bits driver >>> labeled XP. >> >> What version of wpa_supplicant does etch come with? (wpa_supplicant -v) >> >> I am using wpa_supplicant v0.5.8 >> >> Someone told me that I would need to be running version 0.5.10 to do WPA >> with ndiswrapper and bcm4328 - but v0.5.8 works fine for me. I'm >> wondering if you're using an older version which might be affecting your >> WPA sync. > > I'm using 0.5.5, so I'll try to either compile last version or try to > backport the one from Lenny and report the results here. > >> Thanks for your pointers!! I just got sound working finally. I just needed to add that line to alsa-base. I'll try iSight tonight. > > In fact, with iSight, still have some issue I didn't notice earlier, I > have to initialize it once via the skype webcam test before I can use it > in mplayer. Probably some missing value in my mplayer config, will check > this week end. > >> I'm going to write up a howto for most of this stuff soon. It feels like >> you have to get all this information from 3 or 4 sources - there isn't >> quit anything comprehensive out there. > > I think it'll be welcomed on mactel wiki :) > > Regards, > |
From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2008-05-28 12:08:07
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James Vautin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Hardy 64-bit on a 2 week old MBP 4,1 and I'm going to report > my successes and failures. This machine is fresh off the line because I > customised the specs, so it may have slightly new/different hardware > (BCNM4382 rev 05 for example). Overall: success! I'm thinking you meant BCM4328, rev 05. That's what I have in my MBP 4,1 > I'm going to write a comprehensive guide as soon as I get this all > settled so I can save everyone else following me some time. Post as you go, folks might be able to save you some time as well. > The things I thought would be a pain worked perfectly almost immediately > (wifi, 3d, backlight, temps, fans) but I had a couple surprises for > things I still can't get working which I thought would work out of the > box (sound and bluetooth). I'm still stumbling with sound, although I've been so busy (making a living) I've not had time to look into it. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin |
From: Lars S. <la...@st...> - 2008-06-09 22:54:42
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Hi Geoffrey, Am Mittwoch, den 28.05.2008, 08:07 -0400 schrieb Geoffrey: > I'm still stumbling with sound, although I've been so busy (making a > living) I've not had time to look into it. I'm having the same problem on a MacBook. Anything new on it? cu, Lars |
From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2008-06-10 01:27:57
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Lars Strojny wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > Am Mittwoch, den 28.05.2008, 08:07 -0400 schrieb Geoffrey: >> I'm still stumbling with sound, although I've been so busy (making a >> living) I've not had time to look into it. > > I'm having the same problem on a MacBook. Anything new on it? I haven't had a chance to even revisit the issue. :( -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin |
From: paul s <mac...@qu...> - 2008-06-09 23:04:02
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hey - i have a 4,1 as well and found by adding this to my /etc/modprobe.conf options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=mbp3 fix the volume issue... also using alsa directly instead of pulse fixed a lot of issues with other applications... once you reboot, use alsamixer to raise the volume on the front channel... sound works great on a 4,1 including digital output... cheers paul Lars Strojny wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > Am Mittwoch, den 28.05.2008, 08:07 -0400 schrieb Geoffrey: >> I'm still stumbling with sound, although I've been so busy (making a >> living) I've not had time to look into it. > > I'm having the same problem on a MacBook. Anything new on it? > > cu, Lars > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mac...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users |
From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2008-06-10 01:28:56
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paul s wrote: > hey - > > i have a 4,1 as well and found by adding this to my /etc/modprobe.conf > > options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=mbp3 > > fix the volume issue... also using alsa directly instead of pulse fixed > a lot of issues with other applications... > > once you reboot, use alsamixer to raise the volume on the front channel... > > sound works great on a 4,1 including digital output... Is this with a stock kernel, or a kernel compiled with patches? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin |
From: paul s <mac...@qu...> - 2008-06-10 01:34:11
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both... and one more thing i found to get the internal speakers working, but seems to be fixed on the latest kernel... on reboots the speakers would _not_ work until i plugged my headphone jack in and then unplugged it... bizarre, but seemed to activate them or something... i no longer have to do that with the 25 kernel... Geoffrey wrote: > paul s wrote: >> hey - >> >> i have a 4,1 as well and found by adding this to my /etc/modprobe.conf >> >> options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=mbp3 >> >> fix the volume issue... also using alsa directly instead of pulse fixed >> a lot of issues with other applications... >> >> once you reboot, use alsamixer to raise the volume on the front channel... >> >> sound works great on a 4,1 including digital output... > > Is this with a stock kernel, or a kernel compiled with patches? > |
From: Geoffrey <li...@se...> - 2008-06-10 02:59:21
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paul s wrote: > both... and one more thing i found to get the internal speakers working, > but seems to be fixed on the latest kernel... on reboots the speakers > would _not_ work until i plugged my headphone jack in and then unplugged > it... bizarre, but seemed to activate them or something... i no longer > have to do that with the 25 kernel... So, are you simply picking up the latest kernel from kernel.org or somewhere else? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin |
From: Lars S. <la...@st...> - 2008-06-10 06:24:49
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Hi Paul, Am Montag, den 09.06.2008, 19:03 -0400 schrieb paul s: > hey - > > i have a 4,1 as well and found by adding this to my /etc/modprobe.conf [...] You are my hero, finally I can annoy my collegues again with my musical taste, months of silence are over. It works just fine with 2.25.3 and mactel patches. cu, Lars |