Am using Fedora 10 Final release now(Nov-13-2008) (from rawhide) see this post
Blog Last Updated: Sunday Nov 16 2008 IST Quirk for the touchpad is updated
Fedora 10 Version: Applied all updates from rawhide as of Sunday Nov 2 2008 IST
Installation Process
Partitioning and Installation process is as described in my previous post
Post Installation Process
1. Wireless
You no longer need to install the ndiswrapper manually. Configure the 'livna' repository and install the ndiswrapper.
bash$ sudo yum install ndiswrapper
Download the drivers from here, and add them to the ndiswrapper
bash$ cd /tmp/drivers
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -i *.inf
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -mi
bash$ sudo ndiswrapper -ml
2. Touchpad/Tapping
Fedora 10 Automatically configures the touchpad driver using the bcm5974 driver present in the 2.6.27 kernel.
But, not all the tapping/right-click,scrolling features are available. You need to create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf (yea, with Fedora 10 there is no xorg.conf!), with the following options.
(If you are on 64-bit Fedora use /usr/lib64 in the xorg.conf)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "synaptics"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
Option "LeftEdge" "10"
Option "RightEdge" "1200"
Option "TopEdge" "10"
Option "BottomEdge" "370"
Option "FingerLow" "10"
Option "FingerHigh" "20"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "SingleTapTimeout" "100"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
Option "LockedDrags" "off"
Option "MinSpeed" "1.10"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.08"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
Option "TapButton3" "2"
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
Option "LTCornerButton" "0"
Option "LBCornerButton" "0"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "50"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "UseDamageEvents" "True"
Option "UseRandR" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "False"
Option "RandRRotation" "True"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "True"
Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
Option "ConnectToAcpid" "True"
Option "EnableACPIHotkeys" "True"
Option "UseEvents" "True"
Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
Option "NvAGP" "0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
3. Audio
Somehow the audio doesn't work out of the box, you need to set the model option
bash$ echo "options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sound
4. Bluetooth
Works out of the box
5. Firewire
Haven't tested (Don't have a device to check)
6. Microphone
Haven't tested
7. Suspend/Hibernate (Latest quirk updated on 16-Nov-2008)
Touchpad doesn't work after resume. Here is the quirk for that
1. create the following file
(If you are running 32-bit Fedora 10 use /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64)
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/
total 80
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2425 2008-11-04 18:03 00auto-quirk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 274 2008-11-04 18:03 00logging
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 203 2008-11-04 18:03 00powersave
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 809 2008-11-04 18:03 01grub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 341 2008-11-15 18:52 02touchpad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 664 2008-11-04 18:03 49bluetooth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 447 2008-11-04 18:03 50ntpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 429 2008-11-04 18:03 55battery
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 2008-11-04 18:03 55NetworkManager
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409 2008-11-04 18:03 65alsa
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335 2008-11-04 18:03 75modules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 391 2008-11-04 18:03 90chvt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 419 2008-11-04 18:03 90clock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1098 2008-11-04 18:03 94cpufreq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 297 2008-11-04 18:03 95led
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 707 2008-11-05 15:31 95packagekit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2920 2008-11-04 18:03 98smart-kernel-video
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2068 2008-11-04 18:03 99hd-apm-restore.hook
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5492 2008-11-04 18:03 99video
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ cat /usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/02touchpad
#!/bin/bash
if [ -e '/usr/lib64/pm-utils/functions' ];then
. /usr/lib64/pm-utils/functions
fi
suspend_bcm5974() { /sbin/rmmod bcm5974; }
resume_bcm5974() { /sbin/modprobe bcm5974; }
case "$1" in
suspend|hibernate)
suspend_bcm5974;
;;
thaw|resume)
resume_bcm5974;
;;
*)
;;
esac
exit $?
2. Now suspend/resume should work without any problems.
NOTE: Earlier, i was adding the script to /etc/pm/sleep.d directory, which seem to have the problem i mentioned in this bug, if you follow the above quirk, all your sensitivity/tapping things as mentioned in the xorg.conf should work as expected after the resume/hibernate.
8. Hibernate
Works out of the box.
(I am using KDE as my default desktop, sometimes i leave my notebook on battery and go out, KDE automatically takes care of hibernating the laptop when battery power reaches critical state. Resuming from hibernate works cool too!). My kernel version is 2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64
9. Network Card
Works out of the box
10. Nvidia Graphics card
Works out of the box.
In order to make use of the compiz-fusion you need to install the latest 177.78 driver from livna repository.
11. Keyboard special keys / Backlight
Install pommed from this location. After installation edit the /etc/pommed.conf
[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d
[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ wget http://www.diffingo.com/downloads/diffingo-repo/diffingo.repo
[nareshv@fallenAngel ]$ sudo yum install pommed
NOTES: Keyboard backlit and sensors support in Fedora 10 is available from 2.6.27.3-34.rc1.fc10 or higher kernel, as the correct patches were applied to applesmc driver
12. isight (webcam)
Works out of the box.
13. Plymouth Graphical Plugins
By default you wont be able to see the latest plymouth graphical plugin on your macbook after the installation. Here is the quirk for that ( add vga=0x318 option to your /etc/grub.conf)
If you want to see the power of plymouth in action . see the videos
Here is mine.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda3
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-109.fc10.x86_64)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-109.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9972fac9-aba9-443e-a6a1-de3e0a0e8147 vga=0x318 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-109.fc10.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9972fac9-aba9-443e-a6a1-de3e0a0e8147 vga=0x318 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-94.fc10.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.27-3.applesmc.fc10.x86_64)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-3.applesmc.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9972fac9-aba9-443e-a6a1-de3e0a0e8147 vga=0x318 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27-3.applesmc.fc10.x86_64.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
After adding the vga= option to your grub.conf there is a default plugin which will be used. If you want to use the Fedora's solar plugin. run these commands and reboot Fedora 10 to see the plugin in action.
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ sudo plymouth-set-default-plugin solar
[nareshv@nareshv ~]$ sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd
References
Below documentations are verymuch useful in case of any problems.
[1] Fedora : http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Fedora8OnMacBookSantaRosa
[2] Ubuntu : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Macbook_Air
[3] Wifi Drivers : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp37501-38000/sp37950.exe
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