On 3/19/13 2:23 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know if anyone is using OpenBSD on MacBook pro (intel >> based) and how well the system works on it. Is there any hardware issue? >> Performance? >> > > It depends which version you get. I have a MacBook Pro that has Intel > graphics and it works fine (apart from an issue with the IDE/AHCI > controller and the fact it only has a single mouse button). I still prefer > my Thinkpad over it since there it just works and I don't need some magic > bootcamp to get OpenBSD installed. >
You don't need bootcamp. It's a convenient tool if you're trying to set up multibooting and you already have stuff on disk you don't want to lose, but as long as you can set up a GPT partition table and have a working efi bootloader you can just install directly to disk like any other machine. I ran it on a MacBook Pro 5,3 a year or so ago. From what I recall, X and suspend worked, audio from line out worked, audio from speakers didn't but I probably just never took enough time to configure it right, and I don't know about the webcam because I've never tried to use it. Quite oddly they keyboard had some trouble so I had to use an external USB keyboard to install, but eventually it "magically" worked, (I don't remember what I did). Support has probably improved since, as it often does as hardware ages. It ran rather hot and battery life wasn't great but I suspect that's because it has two graphics cards and wasn't powering them down when not in use, but again, that's something that can probably just be configured, but I didn't have the time to figure it out. It's a shame I didn't keep the dmesg. One time I walked into an apple store with a live CD hoping to test hardware support on new machines, only to realize I hadn't thought about the fact that most don't have CD drives anymore, and when I booted it on a Mac Pro they kicked me out claiming I was trying to "upload malware" even though I asked the manager first and he said it was okay. :( Another time I brought a live USB stick hoping to be allowed to test it, but the guy said that the "usb interfaces are highly locked down and secured" but if I told him the "exact kernel version of the OS I was trying to test" (he was probably used to linux guys) he would test it for me and email me the results. I never heard back from him. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
