Comments on: Fedora 12 Constantine on MacBook Aluminum 5,1 [Guide] http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide Family, Friends, Computers, and Linux Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:39:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hugh http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1832 Hugh Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:47:46 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1832 I think the parent may only be referring to older models, but FWIW I originally installed Fedora 11 x86_64 with rEFIt and then used preupgrade to upgrade to F12 x86_64 on my 5,1 pro without any serious issues (I think I had to get rEFIt to re-check the partitions afterwards - can't remember...). I think the parent may only be referring to older models, but FWIW I originally installed Fedora 11 x86_64 with rEFIt and then used preupgrade to upgrade to F12 x86_64 on my 5,1 pro without any serious issues (I think I had to get rEFIt to re-check the partitions afterwards – can’t remember…).

]]> By: SendDerek http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1802 SendDerek Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:32:15 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1802 I was able to install F12 without removing rEFIt on my 5,1 model. It's not the "Pro" model, so maybe there are some differences, but that surprises me that you had so much trouble. Thanks for the insight. I was able to install F12 without removing rEFIt on my 5,1 model. It’s not the “Pro” model, so maybe there are some differences, but that surprises me that you had so much trouble. Thanks for the insight.

]]> By: Glen Turner http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1799 Glen Turner Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:28:39 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1799 Note carefully that if you previously installed Fedora using rEFIt, then upgrading your system to Fedora 12 will irretrievably break it, the only way out being removing rEFIt and a complete reinstall. There are multiple bugs open on this, but "Macbook Pro is a unsupported platform" summarises the tone of the responses. Because rEFIt does not work, and EFI support in Fedora 12 only begins with Santa Rosa Macs, there is no way to get Fedora 12 working on the earliest MacBook Pro Intel. I can tell you to my cost that upgrading on those machines simply results in a completely borked system with no way out beyond installing Ubuntu (which uses GRUB2). Note carefully that if you previously installed Fedora using rEFIt, then upgrading your system to Fedora 12 will irretrievably break it, the only way out being removing rEFIt and a complete reinstall. There are multiple bugs open on this, but “Macbook Pro is a unsupported platform” summarises the tone of the responses.

Because rEFIt does not work, and EFI support in Fedora 12 only begins with Santa Rosa Macs, there is no way to get Fedora 12 working on the earliest MacBook Pro Intel. I can tell you to my cost that upgrading on those machines simply results in a completely borked system with no way out beyond installing Ubuntu (which uses GRUB2).

]]> By: lutzhell http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1745 lutzhell Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:15:19 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1745 Hi, i´ve found a solution to the keyboard backlight problem at least for my MacBook Pro 3.1 https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pommed/ The INSTALL readme explains everything. After installation be sure to have the right path to your pommed as value for DAEMON in /etc/init.d/pommed.init Have a lot fun with it :) Cheers, Lutz Hi,

i´ve found a solution to the keyboard backlight problem at least for my MacBook Pro 3.1

https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pommed/

The INSTALL readme explains everything.

After installation be sure to have the right path to your pommed as value for DAEMON in /etc/init.d/pommed.init

Have a lot fun with it :)
Cheers,
Lutz

]]> By: Branden http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1629 Branden Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:59:08 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1629 Hello All, I found your website before I attempted the install of F12 on my white Macbook - the 2006 White Macbook. I installed F12 and out of the box everything is sweet. Wireless and all. Here's my issue now though. I run software update after install and I have no updates. Ok. Maybe there are no updates, or maybe because I'm behind a firewall? I don't know, so I go home and try it and same thing. At some random point in the night, I was told I had 301 updates. I unchecked the Japanese language update since I don't and may never speak Japanese and the update hung and quit. I go to Terminal and run "yum update" and I'm told the yum lock is in use by another application. I kill the PID's, I restart the computer multiple times. I run it again and kill the new PID's and nothing. I run "yum clean all" and it allows me to run "yum update" and I can run SW Update from Gnome. Now Gnome SW Update says no Updates available and "yum update" tells me I need to add a repository. My question is, what is yum clean and how did that fix that particular piece of the puzzle and how do I add repositories? Hello All,
I found your website before I attempted the install of F12 on my white Macbook – the 2006 White Macbook. I installed F12 and out of the box everything is sweet. Wireless and all. Here’s my issue now though. I run software update after install and I have no updates. Ok. Maybe there are no updates, or maybe because I’m behind a firewall? I don’t know, so I go home and try it and same thing. At some random point in the night, I was told I had 301 updates. I unchecked the Japanese language update since I don’t and may never speak Japanese and the update hung and quit. I go to Terminal and run “yum update” and I’m told the yum lock is in use by another application. I kill the PID’s, I restart the computer multiple times. I run it again and kill the new PID’s and nothing. I run “yum clean all” and it allows me to run “yum update” and I can run SW Update from Gnome. Now Gnome SW Update says no Updates available and “yum update” tells me I need to add a repository.

My question is, what is yum clean and how did that fix that particular piece of the puzzle and how do I add repositories?

]]> By: kbon http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1622 kbon Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:39:50 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1622 @Brandon I just had the same problem with the wireless. Unfortunately your solution didn't help me. Fortunately though, I found a solution which is pretty simple (and straightforward to be honest): installing the akmod-wl package was sufficient for me =) Hope this helps @Brandon
I just had the same problem with the wireless. Unfortunately your solution didn’t help me.
Fortunately though, I found a solution which is pretty simple (and straightforward to be honest):
installing the akmod-wl package was sufficient for me =)

Hope this helps

]]> By: dheche http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1592 dheche Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:54:27 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1592 Yes, "dont tap while typing" option doesn't work. I use "syndaemon -t -d" command instead. And because i dont like single finger tap, i disable it using "synclient TapButton1=0" command. But i wonder why f12 isn't respect /etc/hal/policy/synaptics.fdi (when using f10, i write hal policy and work perfectly) Yes, “dont tap while typing” option doesn’t work. I use “syndaemon -t -d” command instead.
And because i dont like single finger tap, i disable it using “synclient TapButton1=0″ command.
But i wonder why f12 isn’t respect /etc/hal/policy/synaptics.fdi (when using f10, i write hal policy and work perfectly)

]]> By: stick http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1589 stick Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:00:51 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1589 I'm up to F12 on my aluminum MacBook as well and I was wondering about the new <a href="http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/" rel="nofollow">Apple Magic Mouse</a> - have you seen it, do you have one, and does anyone know if it'll work in F12? I’m up to F12 on my aluminum MacBook as well and I was wondering about the new Apple Magic Mouse – have you seen it, do you have one, and does anyone know if it’ll work in F12?

]]> By: dheche http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1587 dheche Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:40:22 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1587 Last night i install f12 on my mbp 4.1. lcd backlight is work out of the box (pressing f1/f2, i try using nouveau and nvidia driver, both work well). for heat problem, i think this is workaround echo 4000 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min echo 3000 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_min touchpad is work well (compare to f10), but i don't know how to disable 'tap'. Last night i install f12 on my mbp 4.1. lcd backlight is work out of the box (pressing f1/f2, i try using nouveau and nvidia driver, both work well).

for heat problem, i think this is workaround
echo 4000 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min
echo 3000 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_min

touchpad is work well (compare to f10), but i don’t know how to disable ‘tap’.

]]> By: min http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/fedora-12-constantine-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/comment-page-1#comment-1576 min Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:57:04 +0000 http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/?p=672#comment-1576 Additional info. For me, F12 is still the same with F11 regarding nvidia and backlight key. I need to sleep it first before it takes effect. Additional info. For me, F12 is still the same with F11 regarding nvidia and backlight key. I need to sleep it first before it takes effect.

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