mbpfan
A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer (by linux-on-mac)
facetimehd
Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam (by patjak)
| mbpfan | facetimehd | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 44 | |
| 843 | 1,315 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | |
| 9 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mbpfan
Posts with mentions or reviews of mbpfan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-14.
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I just switched to Fedora 39
Install fan control from this repo: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
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8,1 iMac overheating on Linux Mint 21.2
Download mbpfan (zip or tar.gz version are the same, choose one) and extract it wherever you want. Despite the name, it works on any Intel Mac.
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Linux on Mac
Also, you can change fan curves with mbpfancontrol
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Linux on late 2013 MBP
I run my 2013 with the intel gpu kernel blacklisted and the nvidia 470 graphics drivers. The virtual TTYs and wayland don’t work but everything else works fine. For the fan/cpu stuff you can look at https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
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Ubuntu 20.04.4 on an old Macbook Pro
Check out mbpfan. Although, overheating on an 360p video sounds very wrong even without mbpfan, I've never had such problems. I suggest disassembling and checking out thermal paste.
- Installed on a late 2014 Mac mini
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Using Linux Mint as Main OS on 2015 Macbook Pro
I am currently using Debian on my MacBook Air. The broadcom wifi card driver is not in the official repository so I had to use an external wifi dongle when first installing the OS. You might also encounter issues with the webcam, so this link might help. I am also using mbpfan to help with heating issues. Other than that, I haven't had any issues.
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Mac Mini 2014 or RPi 4
Free and easy to install: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
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Suggested Raspberry PI
I would also suggest installing mbpfan whenever running non-macOS on Apple hardware.
- Debian su MacBook Air 2015
facetimehd
Posts with mentions or reviews of facetimehd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-14.
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I just switched to Fedora 39
Install webcam driver from this repo: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd
- facetime hd camera on ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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Constantly In The Loop Of Distro Hopping Having A Fustrating Experience Getting My 2015 Macbook Pro To Fully Work On Linux
You can try this one but it probably won't work https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd
- MacBook facetimehd driver isn't working - Fedora
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Installing Debian on a Macbook
IIRC, I made a couple changes to the login config file to enable sleep on lid close. Followed the official page to setup the WiFi driver, and this for the webcam. You might want to check out setting up DKMS for the drivers. Early on I couldn't figure out why updating the kernel causes my WiFi driver to cease working, that was the solution I found.
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"Cheese" Webcam Alternative
Have you installed any driver for your webcam? If you haven’t, you can try facetimehd driver in github.
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Using Linux Mint as Main OS on 2015 Macbook Pro
I am currently using Debian on my MacBook Air. The broadcom wifi card driver is not in the official repository so I had to use an external wifi dongle when first installing the OS. You might also encounter issues with the webcam, so this link might help. I am also using mbpfan to help with heating issues. Other than that, I haven't had any issues.
- Fedora 36 on a mid-2015 Macbook Pro; flawless!
- Installing Linux on an Apple laptop... required to dual boot with MacOS to keep current?
- Stuck on "Try Ubuntu" and "Install Ubuntu" page on Mac.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mbpfan and facetimehd you can also consider the following projects:
nbfc-linux - NoteBook FanControl ported to Linux
facetimehd-firmware - FacetimeHD firmware download and extraction tool
linux-mbp-arch - Arch Linux kernel with 2018+ MacBook Pro patches.
macbook12-spi-driver - WIP input driver for the SPI touchpad / keyboard found in the 12" MacBook (MacBook8,1 + MacBook9,1)
nbfc-linux - NoteBook FanControl ported to Linux
bcwc_pcie - Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam [Moved to: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd]
owl - An open Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) implementation written in C
macbook12-spi-driver - Input driver for the SPI touchpad / keyboard found in the 12" MacBook (MacBook8,1 + MacBook9,1) and 2016 through 2018 Macbook Pro's (MacBookPro13,* and 14,*); a Touch Bar driver is also available.
cool - Never let the heat slow your pre-2018 Mac down again.
flathub - Pull requests for new applications to be added
apple-bce-arch - Arch Linux package for the Apple BCE driver required for T2-equipped devices.
macbook12-bluetooth-driver
mbpfan vs nbfc-linux
facetimehd vs facetimehd-firmware
mbpfan vs linux-mbp-arch
facetimehd vs macbook12-spi-driver
mbpfan vs nbfc-linux
facetimehd vs bcwc_pcie
mbpfan vs owl
facetimehd vs macbook12-spi-driver
mbpfan vs cool
facetimehd vs flathub
mbpfan vs apple-bce-arch
facetimehd vs macbook12-bluetooth-driver