2010/11/3 Peter Robinson <[email protected]> > Please when detailing technical issues strip off non relevant lists so > we don't spam them. > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Raffael Reichelt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great! I just tried the 64bit version on my old MacBookAir and for the > first > > time with SOAS it tries to boot. Thr bootsplash pops upand it is > offrering > > thr bootmenu ... unfortunatly then nothing else happens. Is there a > chance > > to get it to work completly? I would love it! > > That's a problem with the graphics mapping on the Apple devices. We > need to add the details to the kernel to support it. If you can run > the command that's provided in the following bug comment > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232#c20 and the either > add a comment to the bug with the details or provide the details here > and we can organise to get the problem fixed. > > Peter > > > > 2010/11/3 Thomas C Gilliard <[email protected]> > >> > >> Great News; > >> > >> Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an > >> external hp-DVD/CD usb drive. > >> > >> Hold "C" and tap power button keep holding the "C" key down until the > >> blue fedora boot screen appears > >> Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line > >> boots to bar display Fedora 14; (Name_____); Choose password for new > >> keyring; hit cancel 6 times. > >> F3 Ring appears > >> > >> Use the usb to cat 5 Air dongle ( applesmc.78) as Network Manager does > not > >> recognize the Mac Air's wireless hardware. > >> f1 neighborhood will be full of [email protected] names > >> > >> To fix this go to drop down / My settings /About me. change colors and > >> restart. On restart the names will be correct. > >> ONLY IF you enter the key chain password you entered 1 time when you > >> started sugar. > >> > >> These are known bugs > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Bugs#Current_Bugs > >> > >> ALSO > >> > >> There is a new Boot CD for Macs and computers that cannot boot from USB > >> > >> Boot helper CD for Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS: > >> <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso> > >> > >>> Matt > >>> > >>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz < > [email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for > >>>> > Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my > >>>> > MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format > >>>> > and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox > to > >>>> > boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO > >>>> > sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel > >>>> > versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in > >>>> > this build. > >>>> > > >>>> > <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-3-boot-test.iso> > >>>> > > >>>> > Matt > >>>> > > >>>> > >> > >> Please Test these result on other MAC's and report here in wiki: > >> > >> > >> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Macintosh_Testing > >> > >> Congratulations to all > >> > >> Enjoy; > >> > >> Tom Gilliard > >> satellit > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Peter Robinson wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> This is the non announcement announcement of the release of Sugar on a > >>> Stick 4 Mango Lassi is out. > >>> > >>> You can download both the 32 and 64 bit version from > >>> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ > >>> > >>> There's an outline of some common bugs in Fedora 14 and hence Fedora > >>> 14 outlined here > >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs > >>> > >>> Some of the notable enhancements include: > >>> - Sugar 0.90 > >>> - Support for more wireless adapters including the rtl2xxx series of > >>> adapters that are common in eee PCs > >>> - Improved Apple Mac support (still needs SoaS verification as > >>> apparently its a major problem but I could only find Fedora people to > >>> test it for me) > >>> - Quite a lot of things that I can't remember > >>> > >>> I would like to thank Sebastian, Mel, Simon, Thomas and everyone else > >>> who has contributed to this release. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Peter > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> SoaS mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SoaS mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SoaS mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >
Your Welcome! This is the result: <"Apple Inc."> <"MacBookAir2,1"> FrameBuff erBase: 0x80010000 PixelsPerScanLine: 2048 HorizontalResolution: 1280 VerticalResolution: 800 Regards, Raffael
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