- ✅ Wifi
- ✅ Bluetooth
- ✅ USB
- ✅ External display (HDMI)
- ✅ Built-in display
- ✅ Keyboard
- ✅ Sound
Works out of the box
Works out of the box
Works out of the box
Works out of the box
Still figuring out how to make backlight work.
Copy config file to /usr/lib/firmware/brcm/
$ uname -a
Linux inferno 6.14.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 09 May 2025 17:36:18 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lspci -nn -d 14e4:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC [14e4:43ba] (rev 02)
Still figuring out how to make sub work.
✅ After some tricks with ALSA and JamesDSP sound is much better than in Bootcamp but probably not as good as on MacOS.
I'm not sure which one of these really helped but that's t 5AC2 he list:
sudo pacman -S sof-firmware
sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack wireplumber
systemctl --user enable --now pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
sudo pacman -S alsa-card-profiles
systemctl --user restart pipewire
pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 2048
sudo pacman -S alsa-ucm-conf
pacman -S wget make gcc linux-headers-generic
clone [snd_hda_macbookpro](https://github.com/davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro)
./install.cirrus.driver.sh
- Dynamic bass boost: 15db
- Equalizer: Acoustic