The Macbook Air is a laptop in the Apple Macbook Family. Use this tag if you have trouble installing or using Ubuntu on the Macbook Air.
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13.04 sluggish after installation, live-cd was fast
I just installed a fresh 13.04 on my macbook, but after the installation it's a bit sluggish. Several problems occur:
In chromium and firefox, on google.com, the autocomplete search bar lags. ...
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No external display on MacBook Air Nov 2011 with Ubuntu 13.04
External display used to work perfectly on my Macbook Air (Nov 2011 model, I think 4.2).
It stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04.
External displays are no longer detected. xrandr always ...
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Strange behaviour when close the lid of my MBA
I have an MBA and I'm used to close the lid without any problem in OSX.
I've installed ubuntu 13.04 in dual boot with rEFit.
The problem is that sometimes something strange happens when I close the ...
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Running 12.04 from USB Drive or SDXC
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on to a USB thumb drive (8Gb) or a Micro SD card (64Gb). The Ubuntu installer is saying that it won't work, and I can't figure out why. I am using a 2011 MacBook ...
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Touchpad Unresponsive [closed]
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a macbook air 4,1. Around the beginning of December, I noticed the following problem.
When booting up, the touchpad either is not detected or is not working. This ...
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Boot from USB after Ubunutu installed on MacBook Air
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my MacBook Air, first gen, removing Mac OS X. The OS has gotten really screwy since the battery died while installed OS updates. So I wanna format the laptop and install ...
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Mac won't boot into OS X after update
I run an update today on my Mac and it updated GRUB. I select it to leave it and not update it however when I reboot, rEFIt didn't appear and went straight to GRUB. I can boot into ubuntu but not into ...
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Macbook Air built-in mic barely audible
I have a MacBookAir4,2.
If I'm on a Skype call in OS X, the mic works great.
If I'm on a Skype call in Ubuntu 12.10, I have to shout for other people to even hear me; it's very faint.
I also tried ...
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Choppy and pixelated video on Macbook Air 5,1. Unable to run/view HD videos at all
I'm currently running 13.04 (I try to extend the little help I can by submitting bug reports) and the video is extremely choppy and pix-elated on any video program I run (vlc, mplayer, totem etc.), ...
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Which line of Apple Mac hardware is traditionally the most compatible with Ubuntu/Linux? [closed]
I need a new Mac for some specific OSX requirements that I need 1% of the time but for the rest of the time I need Ubuntu, I usually I stick to the LTS releases. I am open to the Mac mini, Macbook ...
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No VGA signal from MacBook Air with Ubuntu 12.10
I have a Macbook Air 2012 running osx and Ubuntu 12.10 side by side. The only problem on with Ubuntu is, that I can't drive an external monitor or projector via VGA. Under OSX this works so there is ...
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Blank Screen at boot Ubuntu 12.04 - nvidia-current - Macbook Air 3,2
I've installed nvidia-current using the Additional Drivers application in Ubuntu 12.04.
I need those drivers so I can use accelerated WebGL.
After installing the drivers, and rebooting X fails to ...
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Why do I have no WiFi on a MacBook Air 14,2?
Just installed Quantal on my MBA. Wireless worked fine until I ran the first software-update and now it cant find the wireless driver. Wired works fine but I dont have root privileges on network and ...
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isight camera on quantal is erratic (macbook air 4,2)
I have a macbook air 4,2 (13" - 2011). The isight camera has become rather erratic in quantal. If I just pull up something like skype and go into the settings, things look fine. The problem occurs ...
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Slow Internet / Can't change brightness on 2010 Macbook AIr running 12.10 Ubuntu
The title really says it all. I haven't been able to change the brightness of my monitor since putting Ubuntu on it. I started off with 12.04 and then decided to see if 12.10 would fix the issue. The ...
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Difference between Ubuntu 64 bit for Macs and just Ubuntu 64 bit? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is different about the Mac ISO image?
What specifically is the difference between Ubuntu 64 bit for Macs and just Ubuntu 64 bit?
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Restoring rEFIt on Macbook Air
My Macbook Air dual boots Mac OS X and Ubuntu Precise. Normally when you turn it on the first thing you see is the rEFIt menu which allows you to select which OS to boot. If you select Ubuntu then ...
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Uninstalling GRUB from MacBook Air
I have a MacBook Air and I recently tried to install Ubuntu on my external HD. I booted Ubuntu from a flash drive and everything had gone fine. I turned off my computer and when I turned it on again I ...
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Unable to create EFI partition on Macbook Air 3,1
A couple of months ago, I was able to install Ubuntu on my wife's Macbook Air. At the time it was still running Lion when I wiped it. About a week later, we wiped Ubuntu and installed Mountain Lion. ...
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Grub won't install on Macbook Air 5,2 (13" 2012) [closed]
I've run into a brick wall trying to get 12.04.1 LTS running on my new MacBook Air 5,2 (2012 13" model). The problem I keep getting is GRUB failing to install; here's the output from virtual terminal ...
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Mac OS X won't boot from grub menu in Ubuntu Precise on Apple MBA(5,2)
I have set up Ubuntu Precise on the new 2012 edition of the Apple MBA(5,2) following the excellent guide over here. Now I want to uninstall rEFIt, in order to avoid going over the boot options twice. ...
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How to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on MacBookAir2,1 (mid 2009) with CD and super-drive (after failed attempt with USB)?
I'm trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) on a mid-2009 MacBook Air currently running iOS Lion.
I have successfully installed it by burning it on to a blank CD to my iMac (using ...
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MacBook air 3.1 ubuntu 12.04 won't suspend when closing lid, after installing nvidia driver
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my macbook air i had a small graphic problem described here: Recent LCD trouble with 12.04 on 2010 Macbook Air 11 (3,1). So i followed the answer and installed the ...
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Super Key not opening launcher
Alright so I have 12.04 installed on my macbook air and somehow it is not recognizing any key as being the Super key both the Option key and the Command key are coming up as an Alt key. I have no idea ...
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any experience with MacBook Air 5.2?
Our company has purchased a MacBook Air 5.2 (13 inch screen) and we want to run Linux on it, with preference for Ubuntu.
My first attempt failed. I prepared a USB stick as boot device following the ...
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Recent LCD trouble with 12.04 on 2010 Macbook Air 11 (3,1)
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macbook Air 3,1 (11", late 2010 model) and it's been working well, after applying the post-installation patches found on the wiki.
Yesterday (July 24, 2012), after ...
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Why KDE cannot change brightness, while Unity can? Macbook Air 4,2
I installed Ubuntu and KDE too on my MacBook Air 4,2, but I realised I cannot change brightness in KDE. In Unity, it works without problem. Other keyboard keys works properly, sound, play, etc., but I ...
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Will Ubuntu run smoothly on my 2012 MacBook Air?
Tech Specs:
1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache
4GB of 1600MHz DDR3L on-board memory
Intel HD Graphics 4000
64GB flash storage
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Ubuntu 11.10 on MacBook Air 2011 - problems with drivers
I had just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my MacBook Air, and have a lot of problems. I used this tutorial, after executing script and rebooting some problems were solved, but now I have completely not ...
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Ubuntu 11.10, MacBook Air, Live USB, black screen when trying to boot
I need to run Ubuntu 11.10 for my diploma thesis, but all i have is a MacBook Air (bought last year). I want to boot Ubuntu from a Live USB in order to install it, but all i get is a black screen. ...
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Brightness adjustment impossible after hibernation (MacbookAir 3.2, Ubuntu 12.04)
After waking my computer up from hibernation (close lid, open lid) I loose the ability to adjust the brightness with the F-keys and in the settings. It's the only problem I have with ubuntu on my ...
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Can I use Ubuntu installed on external HDD on Macbook Air?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on external USB hard drive.
Can I use that same installation (on same USB HDD) on Macbook Air? Can you give me some advices how to boot it?
Thank you in advance!
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Changing the screen resolution on 12.04
I am running 12.04 within Parallels 7 on an 11" MacBook Air.
I'm trying to set the display resolution to the native 1366 x 768 but Ubuntu doesn't list this as an option. How can I add the correct ...
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How can I install Ubuntu on a MacBook Air?
How can I install Ubuntu on a MacBook Air? I want it to dual boot, is it possible?
Do I have any benefits by install Ubuntu or Linux? Since OS X has Unix tools like bash, isn't is the same?
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How do I install Ubuntu as a single-boot system on a Macbook Air 4,2? [closed]
I'm considering buying a Macbook Air as a graduation present, but it will be a 64GB SSD and I'd like to install Ubuntu to the entire disk. Do I need to create a new msdos partition table as this guide ...
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Touchpad tapping intermittent on Macbook Air
On my 2010 Macbook Air, tapping on the touchpad works on about only half of the tap attempts. It seems the sensitivity or something is off. How can I fix this?
It looks like this question has been ...
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How well does the Macbook Air work with Ubuntu?
I'm thinking of getting a nice laptop [thin like Macbook Air, Actually I'm thinking of getting Macbook Air itself]. Question is, how well it will go with Ubuntu.
Being ubuntu user for last 7 years, I ...
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MacBook Air 11" (Late 2010) Touchpad/Trackpad doesn't work
Just upgraded my MacBook Air 3,1 (11" Late 2010) from Maverick to Natty Beta 1.
Trackpad stopped working. Any idea why this happened and how to fix this?
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How to install on a MacBook Air 3,2 without an external CD drive?
I've got a new MacBook Air which I'd like to install Ubuntu on. It has no internal optical drive, I have no external one.
I do have the ability to partition the disk and also have a USB flash drive ...
