Fedora 14 x86_64 on new Macbook AIR - mostly success

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:17 +0100, Jan Wildeboer wrote:

> What fails (partly)
> 
> - no sound

Had this problem with my MacBookPro7,1 - likely the Air has very similar
(if not the same) sound hadware. To get my machine to make sound, I had
to:

1) Force snd_hda_intel to detect the machine as a macbookpro:
  [wwoods at samus ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf 
  options snd_hda_intel model=mbp55
2) Turn up the mixer volumes (and save them):
  alsamixer -c0
  sudo alsactl store 0 

I have a bug open about this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625188

> - external monitor via Minidisplayport doesn't work OOTB, needs fiddling 
> with nvidia tool

This doesn't work in nouveau either - I suspect they've changed
something about how the mini-DP works in recent models..

> - Touchpad options are missing, only basic functions (no right-click, no 
> multi-touch)

Weird - works fine on my MacBook Pro. Two-finger click for right-click,
three-finger for middle. Two-finger scrolling works horiz/vert (I might
have had to go into the Mouse prefs to turn that on).

Is the bcm5974 module loaded? It's possible they changed the USB product
ID and yours isn't getting claimed by the right driver..

-w