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differences in the entry: vendor
Apple
differences in the entry: model name
MacBook2,1 / Mac-F4208CAA
differences in the entry: subtype (notebook or netbook)
notebook
differences in the entry: architecture
amd64
differences in the entry: does it have a free bios?
no
differences in the entry: can free operating systems be installed?
yes
differences in the entry: does the device prevent the installation of wifi cards not-approved by the vendor?
not-specified
differences in the entry: year of commercialization
2007
differences in the entry: GNU/Linux distribution used for the test
trisquel_5_5 , trisquel_6_0
differences in the entry: compatibility with free software
C-silver
differences in the entry: tested with the following kernel libre
3.8.8
differences in the entry: video card model
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
differences in the entry: does the video card work?
yes_with_3D
differences in the entry: wifi model
Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008E 802.11(a)bgn] (PCI-Express)
differences in the entry: does the wifi card work?
yes
differences in the entry: webcam model
Apple, Inc. Built-in iSight
differences in the entry: does the webcam work?
no
differences in the entry: Description
[h1]Model[/h1]
From what i could find it is the "Mid2007" Model
[h1]Boots into 32-bit EFI mode[/h1]
when it finds a GPT disk (intern or extern via usb) with a EFI-System partition code EF00 in Fat32 format. The boat loader (e.g. GRUB2 2.00) must be stored at the EFI-System partition at /EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi
It does [b]not[/b] require any MAC-formated partition, nor rEFIt, nor rEFInd
I had to prepare the disk partitions before the system installation and manually install the boot loader after the system installion. Both is possible with e.g. Trisquel LiveCD (via the optical drive or a prepared usb device)
[h1]Pressing the "alt" key at boot might safe some time.[/h1]
It seems that Apple made the box wait some seconds when it doesn't find any OSX boat loader. This anti-feature lasted about 30 seconds in the first place. at some point it went down to about 5 seconds. Anyway pressing "alt" makes the boot manager menu appear almost immidiately. There you can choose to load any available boot loader (e.g. from intern hard disk and possibly in addition from a usb device pluged in)
[h1]The CPU is 64-bit capable.[/h1]
Although the boot loader must be 32-bit, it can load either 32-bit or 64-bit kernel!
[h1]WebCam does not work[/h1]
since there is no free firmware availble for the kernel to load.
[h1]LiveCD[/h1]
I am not sure about whether it accepts a Trisquel LiveCD since the optical drive in my box is somewhat broken and i had to go via an usb drive/pen
[h1]Graphics[/h1]
For the graphics to work best i added the most recent kernel from
http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
and the most recent Intel graphics driver from
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/
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