{"id":222,"date":"2014-01-27T04:19:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/?p=222"},"modified":"2014-01-27T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:19:06","slug":"gentoo-on-macbookpro-2013-part2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/2014\/01\/27\/gentoo-on-macbookpro-2013-part2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo on Macbookpro 2013 &#8211; part2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/2013\/12\/11\/gentoo-on-macbookpro-2013\">here<\/a> for the first part.<\/p>\n<h2>What changed<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The linux 3.13 still doesn&#8217;t sport support for the wireless yet. The closed source driver works almost great beside when conman crashes horribly due some bad interaction, luckily doesn&#8217;t happen often, sadly I do not have time to debug it.<\/li>\n<li>Using grub with the patch pointed in the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/2013\/12\/11\/gentoo-on-macbookpro-2013\/#comment-2779\">here<\/a> does make appear the intel gpu and you can enjoy using it for hardware decoding using <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/lu-zero\/mfx_dispatch\/\">QSV<\/a>, patches for Libav availabe in the <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/lu-zero\/libav\">usual place<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>vga switcheroo doesn&#8217;t let me switch properly, apparently nouveau takes the console framebuffer and does not really wants to release it.<\/li>\n<li>the nvidia closed source driver works but you lose the access to the gmux, so you can&#8217;t change the brightness, and your console framebuffer is gone as well.<\/li>\n<li>bbswitch seems confused enough to give up, I might ask upstream to help me figure out since seems almost everything is there post-grub-setup.<\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/lu-zero\/pommed\">pommed<\/a> patches are waiting for more testers, then I&#8217;ll bake a release for everybody. Here it is working nicely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What next<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Probably I&#8217;ll try to figure out better how get the intel gpu work fully, since nouveau works mostly fine but Blizzard games on wine do not play at all.<\/li>\n<li>Pommed will see more cleanups.<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully I&#8217;ll play more with the displayports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far I&#8217;m still quite happy about this model even if the mentioned quirks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go read here for the first part. What changed The linux 3.13 still doesn&#8217;t sport support for the wireless yet. The closed source driver works almost great beside when conman crashes horribly due some bad interaction, luckily doesn&#8217;t happen often, sadly I do not have time to debug it. Using grub with the patch pointed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/2014\/01\/27\/gentoo-on-macbookpro-2013-part2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gentoo on Macbookpro 2013 &#8211; part2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGWH-3A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/lu_zero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}