Burn a CD, boot your
MacBook with it and enjoy your Elive system in the
better dedicated configurations made, we are near of the
Stable version, that means if you see any BUG, report it
inmediately to the forum
Thanks!
Interested Testers are welcome on the IRC Freenode channel
#elivemac
your tests are very important for the developement a
better system
- WebCam: Working good and directly, but only with
applications that use v4l2 (many applications use only
v4l), you can view it with the command mplayer tv:// -tv
driver=v4l2 -fps 15 , for now you can use ekiga with
it (old gnomemeeting), we also hope amsn supports it
soon!
- Audio: Multi-audio system working, you can watch
youtube between the music and a video are playing on other
desktop and you have audio applications working and anything
what-you-want
- Wireless: Working good with experimental
madwifi driver, ndiswrapper is added also but don't use
it, ndiswrapper can freeze your computer (with any wifi card,
not only on macbooks), the network via LAN works
also without problems, of course :)
- IR remote control: Works perfectly and with
predefined actions, you can change it on the e17 hotkeys
configuration
- Backlight and Volume keys: Works by pressing
the key Fn in conjunction with the Backlight or
Volume keys.
- Kernel optimized for MacBooks and patched for that
special hardware
- Other hardware: Bluetooth, iPod's, Firewire, usb's,
dvd device... all working
- Games: Neverball is a very addictive 3D platform
marble game, but on this version of Elive you can
use the laptop to interact with the platform of the game. That
means you can manipulate the marble by MOVING YOUR MACBOOK FROM
SIDE TO SIDE!!!
- Mouse pad:
-
- You have the middle and 3rd button enabled on
the pad, this is a pretty ingenious hack, the top left
corner is the middle button and the top right corner is the
3rd button
- Vertical Scroll and Horizontal Scroll
enabled on the right and the bottom of the pad, also. If
you press the pad with 2 fingers, you can scroll (for
example pages in firefox) vertically and horizontally
- A very annoyning glitch on the mousepad of the
macbooks is fixed...when typing you accidentally
hit the button and your mouse goes all over the screen,
changing your window and making clicks ins strange areas...
this problem is solved on the special version of
Elive which disables the mouse, 1 second
after your last click on the keyboard
- You can drag-n-drop only with the touchpad (without
clicks on the button)
- Clicks and movements fine-tuned for macbooks
- Keyboard: The keyboards of the MacBooks are very
peculiar and lack some very useful and needed keys, this is how
Elive solves that problem:
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- Left Apple button is equivalent to AltGr
- Right Apple button is equivalent to the
"windows" key (a hotkey often used like other extra
hotkeys in Elive)
- Fn + Delete is your Supr. key
- Fn + Arrows: PageUp / PageDown,
Home and End buttons
- Fn + F1/F2: Backlight control
- Fn + F3/F4/F5: Mute and Volume
control
- Eject button working with umount to
automatically eject the device
If you have a MacBook computer and you've been
discourage in the past by Linux installs and configurations that
don't work... then run Elive for MacBooks as a
LiveCD and if you are satisfied, install Elive on
the hard disk for your main system. Elive is tuned
primarily as a distribution rather than a LiveCD. What's can be
better than a Linux distro optimized and configured exactly for
your machine ?
Elive is made for Low
Hardware requirements, but you wouldn't believe how light and
remarkably fast it is on that little mac, I'm thinking of selling
my Amd64 machine to get a newer Macbook =)
Be Enlightened, you'll have more News very
soon, stay tuned!
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Note: If you have problems with your Wireless WEP passkey, we recommend to use
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