FreeBSD 8 on Mac Pro
Sunday, 27. September 2009, 02:59:38
I wanted to install FreebSD on my Mac Pro because I wanted to use gcc development branch to get the latest C++0x stuff. As a regular user, I also wanted FreeBSD to use my computer's sound capabilities. This was where problems began and took 1 day (full 24 hours) to resolve...
Not a long story, I will cut it short. Apparently, following post fixes problems with FreeBSD on a Mac Pro hardware (ALC885, using driver snd_hda - I write these mostly to get search engines to catch keywords in case somebody Googles for this).
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2009-01/msg00529.html
I am using Mac Pro v1.1 (2007?) model and it worked just fine for me. Same here; couldn't get front headphone jack working, but who cares - I've got gcc45. Next step is to install any HFS+ driver to access source code on Mac OS X drive (if one exists...).
Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard - not the "Snow Leopard") doesn't have gcc45, as far as I can see. I've downloaded the latest Xcode today and it complained that "No Snow Leopard (1.6) is installed".
Thanks to George Hartzell for posting us this valuable information! I was using default_unit=2. I've tried default_unit=3 before but it didn't work for front jack (and I was playing with kmix levels as well - don't know whether that makes sense). Next step is to install Skype, if possible.
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