Apple Mac Mini - Intel

=Overview= Apple Mac Mini shares hardware with Apple Macbooks, but the screen and webcam.

=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 It has been replaced by a Line input, so if you try to connect a simple analogue microphone, it will not work.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.

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 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
 * 1) OSS/Free portion

This might work on later Mac Mini models as well.

=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"

=Boot Loader= =Kernel =

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/ cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig # opens configuration buffer in tty / pts
 * 1) since I have the symlink I do

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.

=X=

=Window Manager=

evilwm

 * ctrl + alt for everything and anything you want to do
 * alt + click & drag moves windows

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

gnome-packages

 * gnome-media
 * gnome-applets
 * gnome-audio

=daemons=

mpd
emerge mpd
 * need some sort of output device
 * need some sort of audio filetype support

icecast

 * /etc/icecast/icecast.xml...

=Links=
 * Apple Macbook
 * Apple Mac Mini Intel (Gentoo Archives)