Macbook Pro 3 - success stories

Question

Hi,
As I've recently purchased a Macbook Pro 3 (with Nvidia graphics card) I was wondering if anyone has had any luck install Arch on it (preferrably the 64 bit version).
I myself have managed to install Arch (64 bit version) mainly following the directions on the wiki with some changes, but I still haven't managed to get X up and running.
Any feedback from others having installed Arch is welcomed
Kind regards,
Simon

Answer 1

Now my NVIDIA driver works right from the start! No more annoying NV driver ti NVIDIA workaround. One clever guy just changed the original NVIDIA driver! What a shame NVIDIA does not provide such simple solution themselves!
To all of you suffering the same trouble a copy of the howto:
1. Extracted the NVidia driver
# sh NVidia....100.14.11.run -x
2. go to src dir in the extracted folder and edit the "nv.c" file
* changed this routine:
__nv_init_sp = sp;
return 0;
------------------------- with this one:
__nv_init_sp = sp;
for (i = 0; i < num_nv_devices; i++) {
printk("Macbook Hack\n");
struct pci_dev *dev = nv_linux_devices[i].dev;
#define NV_WR32(p,i,d) (__raw_writel((d), (void __iomem *)(p) + (i)))
unsigned long mmio_start;
__u32 mmio_len;
mmio_start = pci_resource_start(dev, 0);
mmio_len = pci_resource_len(dev, 0);
volatile u32 __iomem *REGS;
REGS = ioremap(mmio_start, mmio_len);
if(REGS) {
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1708, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1900, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1901, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1902, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1903, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1904, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1905, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1906, 0);
NV_WR32(REGS, 0x1907, 0);
iounmap(REGS);
} else {
printk("Error mapping memory\n");
return 0;
3. I installed the nvidia driver:
#./nvidia-installer -aN
4. I started X and everything is OK, but with some lost extentions.
5. I loaded the extmod module in the xorg.conf in the Modules section, so the external extensions are available for X.
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
and that's it.