The goal is a lean system that runs relatively well on a low resource system that still looks and feels modern. I tried several approaches running different combs of DMs, WMs, DEs etc. After adding an SSD from an old Lenovo and adding a 4Gib RAM stick I had around I got it running pretty nice even with a heavy DE Cinnamon which I really like.
EXCEPT - no sound - it runs with
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Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-5-amd64
I pretty much tried everything I could find searcing the Internet. Debian does have a WiKi regarding installing up to Buster on a 13" MacBook 7,1 but the driver does not apply to Bullseye although is supported in 5.10 kernel which I don't understand. Anyway the sound supposedly works OOB.
Anyway I have ripped everything out that I installed trying to fix the sound to include the NVIDIA driver that I found, alsamixer, alsamixergui PulseAudio and pavucontrol.
I am thinking of a fresh install in case I jacked something up along the way but obviously would rather fix it. I could go with Buster but the version of Cinnamon is too old (version 3) and lacks the configure-ability of the version provide with Bullseye (version 4).
Any help would be much appreciated.
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sparky@MacBook:~$ inxi -F
System:
Host: MacBook Kernel: 5.10.0-5-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBook7,1 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F22C89C8 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple
v: MB71.88Z.0039.B0E.1111071359 date: 11/07/11
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 54.9 Wh condition: 57.0/62.9 Wh (91%)
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP
L2 cache: 3 MiB
Speed: 796 MHz min/max: 798/2394 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 796 2: 796
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 [GeForce 320M] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Device-2: Apple Built-in iSight type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: NVAF v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.4
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-5-amd64
Network:
Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
IF: enp0s9 state: down mac: 70:cd:60:86:00:ba
Device-2: Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n driver: bcma-pci-bridge
IF-ID-1: wlp1s0b1 state: up mac: e4:ce:8f:74:76:82
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 171.41 GiB used: 9.24 GiB (5.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2BW180A3H size: 167.68 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide
size: 3.73 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 162.62 GiB used: 7.42 GiB (4.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 13 MiB (2.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 976 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check --recommends
Info:
Processes: 139 Uptime: 3h 10m Memory: 4.57 GiB used: 1.07 GiB (23.4%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01