MacBookPro9,x

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Hardware  PCI/USB ID  Working?
Touchpad 05ac:0252 Yes
Keyboard 05ac:0252 Yes
Ethernet 14e4:16b4 Yes
Wireless 14e4:4331 Yes
Bluetooth 05ac:821d Yes
Webcam 05ac:8509 Yes
Microphone 8086:1e20 Yes
SD-card reader 14e4:16bc Yes
IR Receiver 05ac:8242 Untested
Thunderbolt 8086:1513 Untested

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This page covers the following Apple models:

  • MacBookPro9,1 15" Mid-2012
  • MacBookPro9,2 13" Mid-2012

Installation

After booting the installation image, ethernet works, but not wireless. To fix this, remove the b43 kernel module and load wl. This is because the b43 firmware files are not on the installation image. 

# rmmod b43 bcma ssb wl
# modprobe wl
# ip link set wlan0 down
# ip link set wlan0 up

Wireless

Wireless does not work out of the box. Install broadcom-wl or b43-firmwareAUR. See Broadcom wireless. In the past it was reported to be flaky, and fixed with ConnMan. 

/etc/connman/main.conf
[General]
BackgroundScanning = false

SD-card reader

The SD-card reader works, with occasional failures due to a bug. The maximum card speed is 22 MB/s always. In the past it was recommended to use the following kernel parameter, however this seems to have no change in behavior. 

sdhci.debug_quirks2=4

Function keys

See Apple Keyboard to adjust the function keys.

Key Visible?1 Marked?2 Effect
Fn Yes Yes KEY_FN
Fn+F1 Yes Yes KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN
Fn+F2 Yes Yes KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP
Fn+F3 Yes Yes KEY_SCALE
Fn+F4 Yes Yes KEY_ALL_APPLICATIONS
Fn+F5 Yes Yes KEY_KBDILLUMDOWN
Fn+F6 Yes Yes KEY_KBDILLUMUP
Fn+F7 Yes Yes KEY_PREVIOUSSONG
Fn+F8 Yes Yes KEY_PLAYPAUSE
Fn+F9 Yes Yes KEY_NEXTSONG
Fn+F10 Yes Yes KEY_MUTE
Fn+F11 Yes Yes KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
Fn+F12 Yes Yes KEY_VOLUMEUP

Touchpad

The touchpad works out of the box. In the past, it was recommended to use xf86-input-synaptics.

Using synclient

synclient is included with the xf86-input-synaptics driver. It is useful for experimenting with settings as they take effect immediately and expire at the end of an X session. Many macOS options can be emulated without any additional software.

Run synclient -l to have a look at all the available options. Here are some suggestions which resemble the options found in macOS's System Preferences:

  • By default synaptics is configured to use a double-tap drag gesture found on older touchpads - one may argue that this is not necessary on a clickpad. synclient TapAndDragGesture=0 will turn this off.
  • TapButtonX and ClickFingerX sets the mouse button triggered by tapping or clicking with X fingers. set TapButton2=3 and ClickFinger2=3 to assign two-finger click to the right mouse button.
  • Setting the bottom-right corner click to right mouse button can be done by subtracting about 500 from RightEdge and BottomEdge and plugging the new values into RightButtonAreaLeft and RightButtonAreaTop. If the last two options are not visible, set Clickpad=1.

To make settings permanent, just modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf.

Note: Right/Middle ButtonArea options are only recognized once the X fully loads the driver. To work around this, create a script file /usr/local/bin/synarea.sh with the required synclient commands, and add the script to the X startup sequence.

See also