[Pkg-mactel-devel] Ready for Jessie! (aka bits from the debian-cd team)

[Thibaut Paumard]

Le 23/04/2015 03:35, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
>  d. Significantly better support for Intel-based Apple Macs in
>     general, to the point that installing Debian on lots of these
>     machines should now be much easier and doesn't depend on extra
>     third-party software such as rEFIt or rEFInd. I've massively
>     updated the Debian wiki page at https://
>     wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel with more details for specific models
>     of Mac Mini. I'm hoping to provide similarly updated information
>     for Mac laptops too - see below! Massive thanks to the lovely
>     folks at Mythic Beasts for providing me with a range of machines
>     to test with here!

Dear Steve,

Thanks for your work on that. Are you aware of the pkg-mactel team?
 https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mactel/
I'm sure the team could use your knowledge... and sample hardware for
testing packages.

There are a number of packages (e.g. macfanctld, pommed) that help on
some hardware, but perhaps not everywhere. At some point it would be
great if the installer could somehow install them automatically when
needed, and we need access to a variety of hardware to make the right
suggestion here.

In you MacMiniIntel wiki page, you say that it is better to use the BIOS
mode. Is that true? My Macbook Pro (so, not a Mini) runs fine with EFI
booting, with either the Intel IGP (i915 driver) or the NVidia GPU,
(nouveau driver). (Only issues: no hot-switching of graphics, and the
external display works only when using the GPU rather than the IGD).

Kind regards, Thibaut.

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