Show threadCeceliaMar 8

Okay, following what I did on XFCE, I was able to replicate on KDE (yay!). So, now I’m able to type my special characters using my well memorized Mac keyboard memory, but it only works with the right alt key—which I never used on the Macintosh and so most of the inputs for these characters feel incredibly uncomfortable to input (I like to use my left thumb for option/alt and left pinky for shift—most of those higher level key combinations make use of characters on the right side of the keyboard, so it’s a nice division of labor). My potential solution, evremap does not seem to be able to counter the OS’s hold on the left alt key. What are my options (no pun intended) to finally be happy with typing?

#Linux #KDEPlasma #MacintoshKeyboard #LinuxOnMac #evremap #Wayland

Show threadCeceliaMar 4

Using Xfce on real hardware (which feels a lot like it was modeled after Mac OS X a bit), I was able to pick my keyboard and I’m typing em dashes and elipses, no problem. Still annoyed that the left option key is unavailable to me by default. sigh

#keyboard #LinuxOnMac #Xfce

Jean François Huguel 🇨🇵Mar 2
Samedi, lors d'une install-party, j'ai installé ZorinOS sur un MacBook Pro delaissé...Résultat au-delà des attentes: installation sans histoire (mais longue parce que la distro pesait presque 8 gigas), et, une fois installé, un Linux bien fourni en logiciels, rapide, sur un ordi de haute qualité...le plus dur était de trouver la touche qui donne accès au choix du support de boot!
#linux #zorinos #macbookpro #installparty #freeos #linuxonmac
Fabian ReidingerFeb 22

Linux auf dem Mac: WLAN

Vor ein paar (11!) Jahren habe ich hier auf dem Blog schon einmal beschrieben, wie man die WLAN-Hardware der Apple Computer unter Linux zum Laufen bekommt. Nachdem die neuesten Distributionen auch auf proprietäre Treiber zugreifen können (wenn man das will), ist das heute kein Problem mehr. Schwierig ist d

https://www.fabian-reidinger.de/linux-auf-dem-mac-wlan/

#Apple #Linux #Mac #Problemlsung #Apple #Debian #iMac #Linux #LinuxonMac #MacBook #MacMini #Ubuntu

Linux auf dem Mac: WLAN – Fabian Reidinger

Fabian ReidingerFeb 22

Linux auf dem Mac: WLAN nach Upgrade futsch

WLAN auf MacBooks, Mac Minis und iMac unter Ubuntu, Debian oder Mint ist immer so eine Sache. Schon die erste Einrichtung kann einen zur Verzweiflung bringen. Blöd, wenn die Sache erst funktioniert und dann nach einem Upgrade des Kernels von 6.14 auf 6.17 dann nicht mehr funktioniert.

Alle, die betroffen sind, sei mit dieser Anleitung geholfen:

https://www.fabian-reidinger.de/linux-auf-dem-mac-wlan-nach-upgrade-futsch/

#iMac #MacMini #MacBook #Apple #linuxonmac #Ubuntu #Linux #LinuxKernel #LinuxKernel617

Linux auf dem Mac: WLAN nach Upgrade futsch – Fabian Reidinger

Happy SteveFeb 22

I have a 2017 Intel Macbook Pro (currently with MacOS Ventura). 8GB, 256GB SSD

Is Mint Linux the usual recommendation for this sort of thing? (Looking to replace the OS, not dual-boot)

My previous Linux experience was from about '98 (Redhat 5.2) upto about 2013 (openSuse 13.?), plus a bit of tinkering on early R-Pi's, so I'm a bit out of the loop... assume I know very little relevant

Tips/human-written guides welcome! Thank you! :)

#LinuxMint #LinuxOnMac

Show threadCeceliaFeb 22

Okay, so removing the RAID card was a little unnerving (documentation is a little scant), but I was able to get it out and the computer then started failing at booting from the external FireWire drive (this is good news, stay with me). One tip, there‘s a bar in the back to slide toward the front to release the card.
Since I have an encrypted disk, the encryption setup is hard coded to the drive assignment at installation (in this case, sda, but with an internal drive in place, it became sda and, well, it did not have encryption nor a bootable OS). Putting the external drive inside got me to the boot step, but now the upper expansion bay fan was at max (not fun for quite, at home use.
I figured I‘d need to reset the PRAM, but after a quick search to verify, I also added unplugged for 30 seconds, pressed and hold the power button for 10 seconds, and then reset the PRAM.

Next to see if I can expand my boot partition to use more of that 4TB on the drive…

#LinuxOnMac #MacPro

Show threadCeceliaFeb 22

I found a lead! Someone got busy writing a driver to get internal drives to work with an Apple Xserve.

https://na.thanreed.com/2025/02/22/xserve-raid-card.html

#LinuxOnMac #MacPro #Xserve #RAID

Writing a Linux driver for the Apple RAID Card

In this post, I describe from start to finish how I reverse-engineered the communication between the Apple RAID Card and its macOS driver to write a basic Linux driver for it. To do this, I modified the QEMU hypervisor to facilitate tracing DMA (direct memory access) traffic between macOS and the device, wrote an emulated “digital twin” of the RAID Card as a QEMU device to validate and refine my understanding of the communication protocol, and finally wrote a “hackathon-quality” Linux driver for the emulated device and successfully tested it against the real hardware.

Nathan Reed
Show threadCeceliaFeb 18

I’m using a live “CD” image this time (for troubleshooting my issues) and while installing, the screen went off. I panicked a bit when it asked for a password. 😅 Thank goodness I had internet to look up the default password!

#Debian #LinuxOnMac

Show threadCeceliaFeb 18

I did a lot of searching and trying commands and have come to the conclusion that the Mac Pro RAID card is not supported by the OS. Since removing the card requires taking out too tight thumb screws with a stripped driver head at an awkward angle, I’ve instead opted to install to a FireWire (with 400 to 800 adapter, sadly) enclosure that only supports about 1.6TB out of 4TB of drive capacity. 🙃

I got desperate and just want something that is at least functional.

Will need to research better options in the future, but I cannot be obsessing about this for days on end.

#Linux #MacPro #LinuxOnMac #FireWire