FreeBSD 6.2 on new Mac mini
Richard Tobin
richard at inf.ed.ac.uk
Wed Aug 22 14:26:11 PDT 2007
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 on a new (i.e. Core 2 Duo) Mac mini. It was
generally remarkably painless, except for getting up-to-date with Xorg.
I used Boot Camp Assistant to partition the disk, but I didn't install
rEFIt so I have to select "windows' to boot FreeBSD. I got a "double
fault" when exiting the FreeBSD installer but everything seems ok.
Both cores are recognised and appear to work. I haven't bothered to
get the wired ethernet working because the wireless works adequately.
I had to use 915resolution to get my 1680x1050 display working
properly with X.
I haven't installed the Macbook patches (http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook)
as they seem to be for current, and I'm running 6.2. Many of them are
irrelevant to the mini anyway (backlight etc). The one thing I don't seem
to have is sound: kldload snd_driver doesn't seem to find any sound
devices. Is there a solution to this?
-- Richard
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