Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MacBook 4.1 sound - and Pro w/ suspend

[Jonas P. <cat...@gm...>]

Hi Magnus,

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 23:14, Magnus Rosenbaum
<cmr...@fo...> wrote:
> after using PPC Macs under Linux for 5 years, I bought myself now a new
> MacBook. It's the latest white one, calling itself "MacBook4,1".
>
> I got most of the things to working, but my biggest sorrow remains the
> sound. Sound works, but it's very low volume and at least through the
> built in speakers it sounds like through a telefone without any bass. In
> MacOSX it sounds fine.
>
> I have searched the web for the issue and found many similar complaints,
> but no solution. Does anyone know about the current state of this? Is this
> model maybe not yet supported?

I've got the Pro version of that one - my original install info is here:
http://www.xms.se/~zap/linux/macbookpro41.html


Hope some of it might help you out.

However, I recently upgraded to Intrepid and although there are
numerous improvement I find that sound is no longer happy about
suspending to ram. Whether this is related to the improved pulseaudio
support (I've tried variations on oss, alsa and pulse) or something
with flash 10 (came in the package) is not clear to me.

Typically what happens is that if I have Firefox running with a flash
playing something (say youtube) when I suspend (standard stuff to ram
from the PowerManager applet), I will have to kill Firefix in order to
get fully working audio again (with pulseaudio I can get other apps
happy and keep using Firefox in "mute mode"). alsa force-reload does
the trick.

Anyone got this fully working?

Possibly related: after a handful or so suspend-to-ram I often get
duplicated batteries and networks in their respective gnome applet -
at worst Ihve had 5 of each. The appear mostly harmless, but I suspect
that this is the reason the Network Manger sometimes fail to auto-find
network. Again, I never saw any of this in Hardy.

                             All advice welcome / Jonas