Hi, Frank-san
I am using Nevada b106 with MacBook Late 2008 (13-inch Aluminium, MacBook 5,1).
My impression:
I am satisfied though neither audio, trackpad nor wifi are used easily.
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
It works with nvidia driver for Solaris.
required,
# update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,863"'
adjustment of LCD brightness uses nvclock.
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=87856&tstart=0
- Wired NIC: NVIDIA MCP79 Ethernet Controller
It works with nge (no jumbo frame, vlan) driver or Murayama-san's nfo
driver.
However, patch is necessary for nge driver.
http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/blog/patch/nge_snv105_MacBook51.patch
required,
# update_drv -a -i '"pci10de,ab0"' nge or nfo
- Wireless NIC: Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN
It works with ndis wrapper driver.
but, only works 32 bit kernel.
or USB wifi adaptor recommends it.
- audio: ALC885?
attaches audiohd. but very noisy.
I am using SoundBlaster Play! (USB audio unit)
- built-in camera: iSight (works!)
works!
- Trackpad
It is not possible to use it conveniently.
recommend the USB mouse.
- suspend/Resume, fastreboot works.
great!
- powertop
--
OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) (15.8%) 1596 Mhz 100.0%
C1 1.4ms (84.2%) 1862 Mhz 0.0%
-- 1995 Mhz 0.0%
- scanpci, prtconf output
http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Late_2008_%E3%81%AE_scanpci_-v_%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B
http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Late_2008_%E3%81%AE_prtconf_-D_%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B
http://solaris.sunfish.suginami.tokyo.jp/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Late_2008_%E3%81%AE_prtconf_-D_%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B
Best regards,
Kazuyuki Sato
Yang-Rong Jerry Zhou wrote:
> James Cornell :
>> Frank wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, my Tecra M3 is going to break down any week now - though, it
>>> served good for me over ~4 years. As per company (guess wich ...)
>>> policy, for the time being there is no good replacement for it (the
>>> M10 is too heavy and wide and also looks ugly, btw). So, even that
>>> I'm no Apple fanboy at all I examined the specs and read some blogs
>>> on the MacBook (Pro) running OpenSolaris. The HW is fine. Well, some
>>> keys are missing and the touchpad is somewhat strange for me. Anyway,
>>> does anyone have good experience w/ OpenSolaris on a Macbook- maybe
>>> besides Windows XP (OSX is a no brainer for me). Any essential
>>> dirvers that won't work like sound, touchpad and/or wifi? Any other
>>> glitches I'll experience?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>> Sound works with OSS, Ethernet from Marvell's support site, Atheros
>>
> The latest Solaris Audio HD driver(after snv_103) should also work on
> MacBook.
>
> Regards,
> Yangrong
>> works using a newer package from OpenSolaris.org. You'll need a
>> pendrive or the network drivers on a CD. It all depends which model you
>> go with. The revision 1/2/3 have Atheros, but now they apparently use
>> Broadcom again, but NDISwrapper should work, as long as it's running in
>> 32-bit mode. If it's a regular Macbook this won't cause any harm to
>> you. The Pro's NVIDIA graphics are superb, and they have dual cards
>> now, but I think that's too new to be well supported. If you can get a
>> June 2007 model, they work well enough. Just keep in mind the key
>> mappings require work and the iSight doesn't work (In the future, the
>> HAL blob may be usable as it is under Linux).
>>
>> Brian Leonard's Java Weblog is the best article right now IMHO.
>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html
>>
>>
>> James
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