E: Unknown Apple machine: MacBookAir6,2

[kaihendry]

How or where do I get support for a Macbook Air Early 2014? Many thanks,

http://dabase.com/blog/Macbook_Air_Early_2014_Archlinux/

[bytbox]

Hey Kai,

It's pretty ad-hoc. The general idea is to mimic a previous commit, and not worry too much about the inelegance of what's happening. 59d1c3b should be most applicable. You'll need to use dmesg or dmidecode to figure out the appropriate constants, and then you create evdev_is_2014mba to test these. Then in pommed.c you specify the locations of the backlight functions, and update check_machine_dmi.

In principle, pommed already has support, and you shouldn't need to change much besides telling it not to error out for mba6.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Kai Hendry wrote:

How or where do I get support for a Macbook Air Early 2014? Many thanks,

http://dabase.com/blog/Macbook_Air_Early_2014_Archlinux/

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Scott Lawrence

[kaihendry]

Thanks Scott,

I just tried pommed-1.39-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and the same error.

Need to summon up the energy to do the dmi debugging. :)

That said, http://pommed.alioth.debian.org/ is a disaster area. It really should be moved here??

[bytbox]

I have no contact with the original pommed folks, or the debian project. TBH, pommed-light was just supposed to be a version of pommed that didn't have gtk bloat, meant for use with dwm/awesome/xmonad. This thing has spiraled way out of control.

Good luck with dmi stuffs. I'd be quite surprised if any non-trivial changes were required.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Kai Hendry wrote:

Thanks Scott,

I just tried pommed-1.39-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and the same error.

Need to summon up the energy to do the dmi debugging. :)

That said, http://pommed.alioth.debian.org/ is a disaster error. It really should be moved here??

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Scott Lawrence

[kaihendry]

http://ix.io/d6K is my dmidecode output. dmesg is http://ix.io/d6M

Not sure how you find USB_PRODUCT_ID_2014MBA_{ANSI,ISO,JIS}

Sidenote: Is there a good forum for Archlinux / Macbook Air / dwm users out there? Struggling to configure the keyboard. I'm hendry on #suckless IRC.

[bytbox]

Ah, I think PRODUCT_ID is best discovered by lsusb. It'll print stuff out like 1a2b:3c4e -- the second number (3c4e) is the PRODUCT_ID.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Kai Hendry wrote:

http://ix.io/d6K is my dmidecode output. dmesg is http://ix.io/d6M

Not sure how you find USB_PRODUCT_ID_2014MBA_{ANSI,ISO,JIS}

Sidenote: Is there a good forum for Archlinux / Macbook Air / dwm users out there? Struggling to configure the keyboard. I'm hendry on #suckless IRC.

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Scott Lawrence

[kaihendry]

my lsusb output for reference: http://ix.io/d6N

[bytbox]

I'm guessing 0291 is what you want.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Kai Hendry wrote:

my lsusb output for reference: http://ix.io/d6N

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Scott Lawrence

[zachlatta]

Any updates on this?

[agimenez]

Hi @zachlatta y I issued a pull request to add support for MBA6,2. It should work with MBA6,1 as well: #19

Please note that you should use the mba6x_bl backlight driver (check the updated README).

Regards, L. Alberto