I also never use Thunderbolt though I use the mini display port. Just to clarify that should we put acpi_osi=!Darwin, or acpi_osi="!Darwin"?
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Package Details: mba6x_bl-dkms 0.0-1
| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/mba6x_bl-dkms.git (read-only) |
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| Package Base: | mba6x_bl-dkms |
| Description: | Backlight for mba6x to fix post suspend/resume brightness. |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl |
| Keywords: | brighness driver macbook |
| Licenses: | |
| Submitter: | frank604 |
| Maintainer: | WhyNotHugo |
| Last Packager: | WhyNotHugo |
| Votes: | 9 |
| Popularity: | 0.003574 |
| First Submitted: | 2014-02-03 12:32 |
| Last Updated: | 2016-06-29 09:39 |
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WhyNotHugo commented on 2016-12-15 00:57
melmeiro commented on 2016-12-14 18:11
WhyNotHugo commented on 2016-12-14 18:07
@melmeiro Honestly, I can't quite recall why I had to set acpi_osi=!Darwin, but I do believe it had to do with battery duration.
I very rarely use TB, and never hotplug it (though I do use the Mini DisplayPort), so I don't care (or even know) if hotplugging actually works for me.
melmeiro commented on 2016-12-14 17:09
After reading rembo10's comment, I made a research of "acpi_osi=!Darwin", and read a bunch of topics and discussions, in which they refer to "acpi_osi=Darwin". Besides, there is a news about "Thunderbolt hotplug support for Apple devices" in the LWN. You can access the story from "https://lwn.net/Articles/575364/". I am just curious that is the difference between acpi_osi="!Darwin" and acpi_osi=Darwin. The second one already works like charm on my system. Thanks for your time.
WhyNotHugo commented on 2016-12-12 22:07
I can also confirm this. Note that's it's acpi_osi="!Darwin" (@melmeiro ommited the "!").
I actually already had this kernel option because it greatly improves battery life, so all I had to do was actually remove the package.
Since I won't be using this anymore, I'll no longer be maitaining this package, feel free to adopt it.
melmeiro commented on 2016-12-12 21:59
After reading rembo10's comment, I have decided to give a shut to putting acpi_osi=Darwin in kernel options. It worked like a charm. I will no longer keep in using mba6x_bl driver on my Macbook Air (early-2014). Thanks a lot. You made my day.
rembo10 commented on 2016-11-12 22:08
Hey - not sure if this helps anyone but adding acpi_osi="!Darwin" to my kernel options, I no longer needed to use this package
aminb commented on 2016-06-22 16:19
@hobarrera I'm getting the same error as @dougv. I brought it up on pacaur's issue tracker, and here's what the author said [1]:
> Please follow proper VCS guidelines. If the issue still happens, open a new bug report.
Can you please take a look and see whether we're properly following the AUR guidelines for VCS packages?
Thanks.
[1]: https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur/issues/419#issuecomment-227074357
dougv commented on 2016-05-08 16:57
hi. getting an error when installing with pacaur:
[CODE] mba6x_bl-dkms package(s) failed to install. Check .SRCINFO for mismatching data with PKGBUILD. [/CODE]
googling has not helped me fix this up. any tips?
thanks in advance
WhyNotHugo commented on 2016-04-21 23:47
Sorry, looks like I'd never pushed my latest local changes. Current PKGUILD should work fine.
ocpi_osi="!Darwin"