[arch-general] MBP 8, 2: Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
Hi everybody! I just installed Arch on a MacbookPro 8,2 in EFI mode (booting directly from Grub 2). My system boots, but when I try to start X I get "(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration". I've tried changing the modeset values for i915 and radeon (mentioned on this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook_Pro_8,1_/_8,2_/_8,3_(2011_Macbo...) but nothing seems to work. My modules line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf is: MODULES="ahci libahci crc32c-intel intel_agp i915" Does anybody know what I'm missing? Thanks! - Bryan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing?
A BRAIN?! You get an awesome Unix OS with your device, so USE IT. Seriously, I never understood people who ever think of using a non-OS-X OS as your primary OS on a Mac. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing?
A BRAIN?! You get an awesome Unix OS with your device, so USE IT. Seriously, I never understood people who ever think of using a non-OS-X OS as your primary OS on a Mac.
Hi, Brainless software engineer here. I'm using Arch on an iMac 27" + 27" Cinema Display at work and I couldn't be happier. Sure, it took an extra 15 minutes to set it up (compared to a PC) but it's quite worth it. If you are not capable (or willing to) answer a technical question, please refrain from sending these "how dare you do something I don't approve of!" messages. Thanks. @Bryan: I tried setting this up with EFI but it simply wouldn't work so I tried using legacy boot mode + grub-legacy and it all went perfectly.
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:03:18PM +0200, D. Can Celasun wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing? @Bryan: I tried setting this up with EFI but it simply wouldn't work so I tried using legacy boot mode + grub-legacy and it all went
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote: perfectly.
I don't know if this is the only solution to the problem, but I have use the legacy stuff here, too. Cheers, Arvid -- [ Arvid Warnecke ][ arvid (at) nostalgix (dot) org ] [ IRC/OPN: "madhatter" ][ http://www.nostalgix.org ] ---[ ThreePiO was right: Let the Wookiee win. ]---
On 01/17/2013 03:22 PM, Arvid Warnecke wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:03:18PM +0200, D. Can Celasun wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing? @Bryan: I tried setting this up with EFI but it simply wouldn't work so I tried using legacy boot mode + grub-legacy and it all went
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote: perfectly.
I don't know if this is the only solution to the problem, but I have use the legacy stuff here, too.
I used the legacy stuff until last week, when I had to send in the laptop to get the screen fixed. I figured I would try the pure-EFI boot and see if I could get it working this time. I updated the "Macbook Pro 8,1 / 8,2 / 8,3" wiki page with the grub config changes I had to do, so hopefully this is the last time it's an issue! - Bryan
Cheers, Arvid
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/17/2013 03:22 PM, Arvid Warnecke wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:03:18PM +0200, D. Can Celasun wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing? @Bryan: I tried setting this up with EFI but it simply wouldn't work so I tried using legacy boot mode + grub-legacy and it all went
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote: perfectly.
I don't know if this is the only solution to the problem, but I have use the legacy stuff here, too.
I used the legacy stuff until last week, when I had to send in the laptop to get the screen fixed. I figured I would try the pure-EFI boot and see if I could get it working this time. I updated the "Macbook Pro 8,1 / 8,2 / 8,3" wiki page with the grub config changes I had to do, so hopefully this is the last time it's an issue!
- Bryan
Good to hear it's working. Though I can't afford that much downtime at work to try and see if it works on the iMac as well. If anyone has experience with the "iMac (2011 or later) + Linux + EFI" combination, I would love to hear about it. Cheers, Can
Cheers, Arvid
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:03 PM, D. Can Celasun <dcelasun@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Brainless software engineer here. I'm using Arch on an iMac 27" + 27" Cinema Display at work and I couldn't be happier. Sure, it took an extra 15 minutes to set it up (compared to a PC)
A bit OT here. D.: is there any remarkable difference worth noting between running Arch on PC and on a Mac? I'm thinking in something like heat or some part of the HW not being fully supported like the keyboard or anything else. There's no doubt Apple products stands out because the excellent hardware, one of the main reasons one would argue to install GNU/Linux on them, but as I never tried this and I'm a bit reluctant to mess with HW glitches I would love to hear from an archer running his system on Mac. Regards.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Martín Cigorraga <msx@archlinux.us> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:03 PM, D. Can Celasun <dcelasun@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Brainless software engineer here. I'm using Arch on an iMac 27" + 27" Cinema Display at work and I couldn't be happier. Sure, it took an extra 15 minutes to set it up (compared to a PC)
A bit OT here. D.: is there any remarkable difference worth noting between running Arch on PC and on a Mac? I'm thinking in something like heat or some part of the HW not being fully supported like the keyboard or anything else. There's no doubt Apple products stands out because the excellent hardware, one of the main reasons one would argue to install GNU/Linux on them, but as I never tried this and I'm a bit reluctant to mess with HW glitches I would love to hear from an archer running his system on Mac.
Well, the entire office has this exact same hardware setup. Some run stock OS X, some run Windows and I run Arch :) All of our machines seem equally hot (which iMac's tend to do) so I don't think there any power management issues that stand out. One disappointing thing was the Catalyst perfomance. Occasionally, it caused some mouse cursor and compositor corruptions. Though I'm told these happen in a lot of systems using Catalyst, so it's not iMac specific. Switching to xf86-video-ati solved all that What else? Wireless (ath9k) is perfect, so is bluetooth, suspend, hibernate, webcam, microphone. No glitches, crashes, corruptions, nothing. It just works! If you decide on trying it, I'd be glad to help out with any issues. Cheers.
Regards.
On 01/18/2013 01:50 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:03 PM, D. Can Celasun <dcelasun@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Brainless software engineer here. I'm using Arch on an iMac 27" + 27" Cinema Display at work and I couldn't be happier. Sure, it took an extra 15 minutes to set it up (compared to a PC)
A bit OT here. D.: is there any remarkable difference worth noting between running Arch on PC and on a Mac? I'm thinking in something like heat or some part of the HW not being fully supported like the keyboard or anything else. There's no doubt Apple products stands out because the excellent hardware, one of the main reasons one would argue to install GNU/Linux on them, but as I never tried this and I'm a bit reluctant to mess with HW glitches I would love to hear from an archer running his system on Mac.
Regards.
When I first got this one in October 2011 the wireless card wasn't yet supported in the latest kernel, so I tried to keep up with the rc releases for a couple of months. I don't usually have a problem working the processor with kernel compiles and virtual machines, so I have noticed a bit of heat (I actually assume that's what caused a screen problem last week). It seems to be running 10 - 15 C cooler now... I don't know if switching to grub-efi from grub-legacy has anything to do with that. - Bryan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing?
A BRAIN?! You get an awesome Unix OS with your device, so USE IT. Seriously, I never understood people who ever think of using a non-OS-X OS as your primary OS on a Mac.
Mostly because I like Linux / Arch better...? It's a personal preference thing :) Anyway, I just ran across this thread with the solution: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1216670. I had to add the four "outb" lines to grub to turn off the radeon card and enable the intel card and then everything worked. - Bryan
-- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 05:54:34PM +0100, Kwpolska wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, bjschuma@gmail.com <bjschuma@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody know what I'm missing?
A BRAIN?! You get an awesome Unix OS with your device, so USE IT. Seriously, I never understood people who ever think of using a non-OS-X OS as your primary OS on a Mac.
Because OS X is not about the developers anymore. My father uses OS X. He is the target user now, not me. I can try to install everything I need next to the outdated crap Apple delivers or I get rid of the OS and install a Linux I can make jump through every hoop I want it to. :D But sorry, I have no idea about the original problem. I have the feeling that I might have been run into that too, but I don't know what I did about it. :( Best regards, Arvid -- [ Arvid Warnecke ][ arvid (at) nostalgix (dot) org ] [ IRC/OPN: "madhatter" ][ http://www.nostalgix.org ] ---[ ThreePiO was right: Let the Wookiee win. ]---
participants (6)
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Arvid Warnecke
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bjschuma＠gmail.com
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Bryan Schumaker
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D. Can Celasun
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Kwpolska
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Martín Cigorraga