Apple Mac Mini - Intel
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[edit] Overview
Apple Mac Mini shares hardware with Apple Macbooks, but the screen and webcam.
[edit] Sound
The new Mac Mini (also known as v. 3.1 or Nvidia chipset version) doesn't have a Microphone input. It has been replaced by a Line input, so if you try to connect a simple analogue microphone, it will not work. Instead, you need a USB microphone, an auto-amplified microphone or a bluetooth headset.
To allow more applications to use the same audio device, you can use PulseAudio.
[edit] ALSA Configuration
For proper speaker and headphones configuration with jack detection on macmini3,1 (Late 2009 model) use this ALSA configuration in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf:
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=macmini3 # OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
This might work on later Mac Mini models as well.
[edit] make.conf
Some suggested variables for your /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j3" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" LIRC_DEVICES="macmini"
[edit] Boot Loader
[edit] Kernel
[edit] Scheduling
[edit] lspci
gentoo ~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 27a3 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) 03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
lspci gives you a list of the pci devices your system has - man lscpi. For each device in the list find the matching kernel options. An example: ar242x is an atheros 5xxx card, ath5k is the name of the module. Some commands below
cd /usr/src/<kernel or if you have symlink use flag: linux> # since I have the symlink I do cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig # opens configuration buffer in tty / pts
When in the kernel option menu (menuconfig), use '/' to search for a module, something like SND_HDA_INTEL. In this case you want to use ath5k. you will see a list of CONFIG_OPTIONS that need to be enabled in order to chose the ath5k options and if you chose to compile them into the kernel [*] or as a module [M].After you have all the support you want and choose all the options for you processor / IDE/SATA Contollers. you want to execute the following commands
make && make modules_install cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-*kernelVersion* # specify the name of your target kernel binary cp System.map /boot/System.map-*kernelVersion* # copies system map for current kernel version, good for the kernel panic debugging
Modify LILO/GRUB configuration to use the new kernel image. Reboot and you should be set.
[edit] X
[edit] Window Manager
[edit] evilwm
- ctrl + alt for everything and anything you want to do
- alt + click & drag moves windows
[edit] gnome-light
if you do not want the full on fatty gnome
emerge gnome-light
if you have gnome in your USE flags, this might end up having the same / similar effect as having gnome when you emerge other packages. I add gnome to each package that needs it specifically.
echo package/atom gnome >> /etc/portage/package.use
this will let you build the gnome related parts of the package for only the specified packages
[edit] gnome-packages
- gnome-media
- gnome-applets
- gnome-audio
[edit] daemons
[edit] mpd
emerge mpd
- need some sort of output device
- need some sort of audio filetype support
[edit] icecast
- /etc/icecast/icecast.xml...
