On 12/23/06, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I managed to compile and run 2.6.18.6 with the mactel patches from SVN
and this had several positive and negative effects.
Positive:
- 2/3 finger tapping to get 2/3 buttons works well.
- Touchpad is more responsive but still jerky.
- The sound driver is at least loaded though I don't know if sound works
yet.
Negative:
- Ndiswrapper no longer works.
- Fan spinup and makes a lot of noise when CPU active
When the CPU is active the fans spin-up a lot and make a whiny noise.
This didn't happen with the standard Ubuntu kernel and it never
happens under OS X. I'm guessing this is to keep the system cool but
is there some way to reduce this effect? Is there some nice utility
to configure the applesmc driver?
I still find the touchpad very jumpy and I see that Jason Parekh has a
patch that supposed to improve this at:
http://www.jasonparekh.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/appletouch-2finger_det-threshold_opt.patch
But this is only for 2.6.17. Does anyone know if this has been
integrated into 2.6.18?
Has anyone managed to get the new wireless cards on the MBP C2D to
work with 2.6.18.6 with the mactel patches and Ndiswrapper? Gimli
suggested that this was broken in 2.6.19 but it also doesn't seem to
work in 2.6.18. It seems like 2.6.18 no longer supports ndiswrapper
or at least i can't find a config option for it in the kernel. Am I
doing something stupid or is ndiswrapper gone from 2.6.18?
thanks,
Sheer
I replied to this and forgot to CC the list. So did Sheer on his reply...
:-) This seems to be general setup stuff and not 'noteworthy' of the list so
I'm continuing with the direct emails. Sorry guys...
One thing of note tho, I gave Sheer a URL to a compilation of my expierences
with the 2nd generation MacBook Pro on Slackware. It's over on LQ.org in the
Slackware forum.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=496688
.SlackBuilds for everything, walk thru's for getting stuff to work... The
works. EVERYTHING is running perfectly on 2.6.18.x except for suspend.
That's about the only thing I haven't delved into yet...
If someone REALLY wants to know what we've been talking about, I'll forward
everything to the list. Just ask.
Jon
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