Fedora 13 on mac book pro 13"
Submitted by lefred on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 11:15
I used preupgrade to updgrade Fedora from 12 to 13.
After the process, I had to resync the partition in refit to be able to boot Linux.
I rebuilded the needed packages for nvidia and the broadcom wireless card.
I needed also to do some modifications to be able to use the integrated iSight webcam:
1. download the apple firmware :
wget http://www.i-nz.net/files/projects/linux-kernel/isight/against-revision-...
then extract it (using the Fedora 12 package isight-firmware-tools) :
[root@delvaux ~]# su -c "ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport"
after this operation it should be working for most of the macbook pro, but not for this model, another change is needed.
first find the idProduct number:
[fred@delvaux Desktop]$ lsusb -v | grep iSight -B 3 | grep idProduct idProduct 0x8507
and mofify the file /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules with the returned value :
[root@delvaux rules.d]# cat isight.rules
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib64/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"
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2 reponses to "Fedora 13 on mac book pro 13""
1. Fresh install fc13
How to install fedora fc13 on macbook pro 13"?
Please tell me all the detail step coz I'm newbe here,..
Thx
2. fedora on mac osx
you need to install refit and then install fedora as usual, you will find some extra info on my previous post here : http://www.lefred.be/?q=node/109