mactel-linux-devel

[Mactel-linux-devel] Intel Mac Mini

[Thomas G. <sit...@st...>]

Hello,
I buyed today a Intel Mac Mini. I wanted to know what already works on
the machine and what not. I assume that you can boot a kernel and have
some sort of framebuffer available.

        - Does Xorg support the Graphic Card with a native driver?
        - Is the wavelan interface supported?

Thanks,
        Thomas

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Intel Mac Mini

[Miguel F. <mig...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 3/10/06, Thomas Glanzmann <sit...@st...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I buyed today a Intel Mac Mini. I wanted to know what already works on
> the machine and what not. I assume that you can boot a kernel and have
> some sort of framebuffer available.
>
>         - Does Xorg support the Graphic Card with a native driver?

framebuffer driver (no hw accel) I believe

>         - Is the wavelan interface supported?

IIRC yes, throught the use of ndiswrappers and using windows drivers.
Look in the ML archives for more information.

>
> Thanks,
>         Thomas



--
Miguel Sousa Filipe

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Intel Mac Mini

[Jimmy K. <ji...@de...>]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 07:42:16PM +0000, Miguel Filipe wrote:
> IIRC yes, throught the use of ndiswrappers and using windows drivers.
> Look in the ML archives for more information.

Where do I see the ML archives? On SourceForge.net, all I see are a few
test and subscribe mails from gimli in February. (Admittedly I'm not
subscribed using an email address associated with SF.net, but I'd expect
archives for the mactel-linux lists to be public anyway since there's
nothing illegal about this project.)

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
ji...@de...

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Intel Mac Mini

[Matthew G. <mj...@sr...>]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 07:42:16PM +0000, Miguel Filipe wrote:

> IIRC yes, throught the use of ndiswrappers and using windows drivers.
> Look in the ML archives for more information.

For machines with Broadcom wireless, there's a patch on the bcm43xx list 
that works. For machines with Atheros wireless, the madwifi-ng branch on 
www.madwifi.org ought to work.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mj...@sr...

Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Intel Mac Mini

[Erik O. <er...@pl...>]

So I have not yet built or used a real live CD for the mini, so I have
no clue about Xorg or the wavelan interface. I think there is at least
a fair chance that the i915 driver might work (as far as I can tell
the mini's chipset seems supported via that driver).

There has been support added to the imacfb console driver for the mac
mini, which I used successfully. I have booted a kernel and very small
linux install off of a USB keychain using rEFIt and elilo.

Once a new live CD with a kernel that supports the mac mini is built I
will try that out. I have been meaning to try to build one myself but
haven't gotten around to it yet.

-- Erik

P.S. The links from the sourceforge page (like the mailing list
archives) don't seem up-to-date; the files don't contain the newer mac
mini patches (as far as I can tell).

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 07:42:05PM +0100, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> I buyed today a Intel Mac Mini. I wanted to know what already works on
> the machine and what not. I assume that you can boot a kernel and have
> some sort of framebuffer available.
> 
>         - Does Xorg support the Graphic Card with a native driver?
>         - Is the wavelan interface supported?
> 
> Thanks,
>         Thomas
> 
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