Best way to edit /etc in Silverblue to enable Macbook FacetimeHD camera

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I need help with the first step, and perhaps the second step, in the instructions linked below. I repurposed my wife’s old 2015 Macbook Air for my daughter’s first computer, and I want to make sure she has a good experience. Also wife might be a little peeved if she finds out I flashed the computer and not everything still works, but probably not :innocent:

Thanks for any help provided, haven’t done anything like this in Silverblue yet I don’t think.

$ echo 'install_items+=" /usr/lib/firmware/facetimehd/firmware.bin "' >> /etc/dracut.conf.d/facetimehd.conf

$ dnf copr enable frgt10/facetimehd-dkms

$ dnf install facetimehd

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/frgt10/facetimehd-dkms/

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Editing /etc is no issue, but DKMS is not compatible with Silverblue.

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Ah okay, well that makes the solution simple then. She’s only six so I’m thinking the camera may be missed but perhaps for the better. Everything else works great after I installed broadcom-wl to get wireless working.

I got her set up with her own kids Spotify account and her own Steam family account which I’m sharing certain games from my profile. Also Minecraft, and a bunch of Tux games / GNOME Chess from the Fedora Flatpaks. Everything looks like it is going to plan and she will love her Fedora laptop, fingers crossed.

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This might be a lot more work, but you could try building the kernel module from source in a container and manually loading it, as described here - Implement compatibility with DKMS (Nvidia, etc.) · Issue #1091 · coreos/rpm-ostree · GitHub

Found the driver source here - GitHub - patjak/facetimehd: Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam

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Added macos-transition

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@mpphill2 , I found this copr repo with instructions that worked for my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, MacBookPro11,2 running Fedora Silverblue 40.

The instructions were here:

and here:

Two simple commands that get your facetime camera working great in Silverblue.

  1. install copr repo
sudo curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_mulderje-intel-mac-rpms.repo \
    "https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mulderje/intel-mac-rpms/repo/fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora)/mulderje-intel-mac-rpms-fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora).repo"
  1. now install facetime
rpm-ostree install facetimehd-kmod
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