[haiku-development] Re: Macbook Plus

  • From: Arnold <arnoldvanh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 15:25:56 +0200

2009/5/3 Zenja Solaja <solaja@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I've got Haiku booting on MBPro with ATA bus manager (not the default IDE
> one). I haven't tried Marcus's new patch from last week.   Keyboard and
> mouse works relatively well.  The biggest problem I have (other than no
> wireless) is that VESA doesn't detect the proper screen resolution, so I'm
> limited to 1152x834 (or similar) instead of 1440x900 ((ATI x1600 chipset).
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Bryce Groff <bgroff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Had an opportunity to try a CD boot on an Intel-based Macbook Plus
>>> yesterday. In raw boot mode it displayed the splash screen then did nothing,
>>> and using the Virtual Desktop we managed to get past the first four boot
>>> icons before she froze. This thing has a Core 2 Duo in it.
>>>
>>> Anyone else tried/succeeded with this platform?
>>
>> I have a MacBook that I have an older build running on. You have to use
>> the ata bus_manager. Also have an external keyboard and mouse ready, I have
>> troubles with my internal hardware. There are probably some differences
>> between the pro and the regular MacBook's but it it should boot with some
>> tinkering.
>>
>> Bryce
>>
>
>
>
I tried to rebuild Haiku on my macbook updated svn source installed
yasm 0.8.x but the building failed saying to run configure again but
the building of the buildtools failed for gcc2 and 4

otherwise I would have recommended this on the mac.


regards
Arnold

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