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apple: Add support for MacBook Air 3,X #91

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@ilian ilian commented Dec 31, 2018

Add support for MacBook Air 3,X, which only contains a NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU instead of integrated Intel graphics.
The configuration contains the black screen fix for this model.

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This removes GRUB as a dependency.
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ilian commented Feb 5, 2019

Hi, thanks for reviewing!
I've tested the current state of the video driver support of this model:
Starting display-manager from the install ISO results in X Server not finding a screen and thus requires installation from the tty.
After installation, nouveau seems to be working fine out of the box and does not require setpci tweaking. KDE desktop effects and video playback at 1080p@60fps of an H.264 sample file are both working without requiring the installation of the proprietary Nvidia driver.
Installing the legacy Nvidia driver causes a kernel panic as soon as the X server starts even though it worked fine about 6 months ago.

[  61.431767] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000328
[  61.431950] IP: _nv006854rm+0x272/0x3c0 [nvidia]

I'm closing this PR because nouveau is working well and seems stable, while the proprietary driver is breaking.

@ilian ilian closed this Feb 5, 2019
@Mic92 Mic92 reopened this Feb 6, 2019
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Mic92 commented Feb 6, 2019

It would still make sense to have this module though.
Having it explicit mentioned also it just imports an upper profile
is a good indication for other people that the module was
tested for this device.

@ilian ilian changed the title apple: Add support for MacBook 3,X apple: Add support for MacBook Air 3,X Nov 7, 2019
hardware.facetimehd.enable = false;

hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode =
lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
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Why not using ../../../common/cpu/intel here?

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Ah, just read about the NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU

@Mic92 Mic92 merged commit adecd11 into NixOS:master Nov 12, 2019
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