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TC on Macbook Pro, notes

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curaga:
KVM works :) One of the things I required from the laptop. Running anything in Qemu is now rather fast.

curaga:
Webcam works, after getting the firmware from the OSX partition using isight firmware tools. Tested with "mplayer tv://". Now just to figure out what the heck use that for :P

curaga:
Now messing with the hotkeys. Pommed would seem the choice for it in the linux world:
--- Quote ---pommed handles the hotkeys found on the Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook and PowerBook laptops and adjusts the LCD backlight, sound volume, keyboard backlight or ejects the CD-ROM drive accordingly.

pommed also monitors the ambient light sensors to automatically light up the keyboard backlight on the MacBook Pro and the latest PowerBook.

Optional support for the Apple Remote control is available.
--- End quote ---
But dear god the dependencies. Z+5 libs nothing else needs, plus never heard of, plus d-bus. No thanks. I don't want a daemon running there using resources just passing messages.

So, the keys have normal keycodes, as xev and showkey show. I'll be using actkbd to map them to actions. An actkbd extension to come.

The IR receiver can be used by standard LIRC. The only thing left would be the ambient light sensor, toggling the keyboard & screen backlights based on that.

PS: I have to try Neverball with the tilt sensor sometime ;)

siriusfox:

--- Quote from: curaga on September 05, 2009, 04:40:26 PM ---- sound works using alsa
- ath9k says it recognizes the wireless, can't test right now
- Xorg gives nice full display, 1440x900
--- End quote ---

What did you have to do to get Xorg working? I'm sitting on an iMac with similar specs (2GHz CD, X1600 GPU), and Vesa works fine, but when I go to launch Xorg the internal configuration fails when I try to run startx. TC 2.3.1.

curaga:
I'm kind of old school, I prefer to create my own xorg.conf (instructions are in the info file). However, it worked straight from autodetection, so something else might be the fault here. Post the errors in a new thread?

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