Questions relating to Apple's Macbook. Use this tag if you have trouble installing or using Ubuntu on the Apple Macbook. Please use the macbook-air or macbook-pro tag if the question is Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Specific.
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Disabling Macbook Auto-Dimming
I was toying around with different kernels on my Macbook Pro, and during the process my Xorg.conf got wiped out. After I rebooted with a more recent kernel, and re-installed the Nvidia driver, I found ...
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How do I enable OSX-like three-finger swipes in 11.10 and 12.04?
In MacOSX the default settings is to move back/forward a page in Firefox when I do a three-finger swipe left/right.
In Unity, three-finger-swipes invokes window movement.
How can I configure ...
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How do I move a window when two-finger scroll is enabled?
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my MacBook Pro, and I have enabled two-finger scroll.
Now I'm unable to move a window with the trackpad, which is usually done by click-and-holding the window title ...
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Why does powertop think I have two displays?
Ok, so in powertop (version 1.97), in both the "overview" and "device stats" sections, I see two devices, each called "display backlight". One shows the correct percentage of use, e.g. if I lower ...
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Isight on Ubuntu 11.10 (Macbook 4.1)
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Macbook 4.1 and just after installing the isight firmware by following the instructions here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleiSight ...
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Unable to update Ubuntu 10.10 installed in MacBook Pro with dual boot
So, this is my problem:
I was able to install Ubuntu 11.10 in dual boot in my MacBook Pro 5.1 with rEFIt. I had to do it twice because first time I installed GRUB in /sda instad of in /sda3. Anyways, ...
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Autodim does not un-dim when I start using the computer again
On my MacBook 2,1 with Ubuntu 11.10, whenever I leave the computer alone for five minutes, it blacks out and wont respond to any keypresses or even the power button.
UPDATE: It was the autodim ...
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Touchpad requires you to press really hard on MacBook 2.1
On my white MacBook 2.1 I have to press to my finger really hard to the touchpad to even move the mouse pointer. I did not have to do that when I had OSX installed on it.
Any ideas?
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Unstable wireless on MacBook 2,1 with Ubuntu 11.10
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 as the sole OS on my old white MacBook 2,1.
The wireless seems really unstable. The signal is always full, but sometimes I can browse, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I can ...
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Backlight Problem with Ubuntu 11.10 and Macbook Pro [closed]
First let me say: I am completely new to Linux so please be patient ;)
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 successfully, meaning it boots up. --> I love it!
Right after a fresh reboot i have full ...
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How to fix webcam on Macbook Pro 5,5
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Macbook Pro 5.5. When I initially installed, the webcam worked perfectly, and I could use Cheese to take photos or video without any problems. However, now when I open ...
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CPU/GPU fan not working properly on Intel Macbook 4,1 under Ubuntu 11.10
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Intel MacBook 4,1 and I have noticed that the cpu temperature is getting very high and the fan, although working, is not increasing its speed to cope with the ...
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How do I enable wireless on a Macbook Pro 5,2 (17-inch from mid-2009)?
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 on my Ubuntu partition on my macbook pro and I love it. Except I have no wireless option/icon to select a wireless network.
I have done some digging online to see ...
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I erased osx when i installed ubuntu, how do i set up dual boot [closed]
I have a macbook pro 8,1 running ubuntu 11.10 on it. Before I wiped osx clean off it, i was running osx lion.
This computer was shipped with snow leopard on it so i know it will work on it, but ...
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Repartitioning dual booting Macbook
I have a Macbook Pro configured to dual boot OSX or Ubuntu. Originally, I split the drive evenly between the two, but as I've been using Ubuntu far more heavily, and I'm running out of space on its ...
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Installation Hangs on a Macbook Pro 5,1
I am trying to install the 64bit AMD64 Mac iso on my Macbook Pro 5,1 and I can only get to the Ubuntu screen which allows you to choose the LiveCD option or the Install Now option (plus some other ...
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Broadcom 4331 card sees wireless networks but can't make a connection
I followed the steps to get the broadcom 4331 card working on ubuntu 11.10. You know where you dont use ndiswrapper, and you patch the kernel and stuff.
Okay so i did this. Good news: ubuntu sees ...
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Is installing Ubuntu on Mac as simple as installing on a generic PC?
I am planning to buy a new laptop and as I'm an Ubuntu Fanatic. I'd like to know whether the procedure of installing Ubuntu on a Mac is as simple and straight-forward as it is on a PC. If it is then ...
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Macbook Pro 8.1 Wireless Instructions
I have been following some instructions on how to get the wireless card working on my early 2011 MBP running Ubuntu 11.10. These can be found here.
I get to the following steps:
Extract the ...
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Macbook Pro 8.1 Keyboard Backlight on Ubuntu 11.04 With KDE
Can anyone tell me how to enable my keyboard's backlight? It works fine using gdm and Unity. I recently installed kde 4.6.5 and started using kdm, everything works fine as in unity, only my keyboard's ...
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How can I create a live USB with persistant storage that will run on a Macbook Air without using rEFIt?
Sometimes I have to use a MacBook Air (2,1) at work. I'd like to be able to have an Ubuntu USB stick with persistent storage space for it, that does not require any modification of the machine's ...
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Screen Brightness on new MacBook Pro 8,3?
2011 8,3 MacBook Pro running 64bit 11.10.
The screen brightness keys seem to actually do things, but nothing actually changes with regard to actual laptop screen brightness. (See this video. Ubuntu ...
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Hard Drive Partition Questions [closed]
Okay so big project here. I'm currently on a MacBook with Ubuntu 11.10 installed. I have Ubuntu installed because in the process of trying to partition my harddrive to put ubuntu on it... I hosed the ...
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Can I get sensible labels for lm-sensors output for “applesmc-isa-0300”?
2011 8,3 Macbook Pro running 64bit 11.10.
When I run sensors from the lm-sensors package, I get a lot of information, but no way to understand it:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical ...
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Some windows render slow, others fast?
2011 8,3 MacBook Pro running 64bit 11.10.
I'm having a pretty weird problem here. After installing fglrx-updates and disabling OpenGL/Sync To VBlank and disabling Composite/Detect Refresh Rate, ...
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Persisting keyboard light state on boot/shutdown
2011 8,3 Macbook Pro running 64bit 11.10.
The keyboard backlight keys are working great, but how can I make them persist state across reboots? I'd like to record the current keyboard backlight state ...
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Audio comes out of only one speaker on a Macbook Pro 7.1
Model Identifier: MacBook Pro 6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Ubuntu 11.10
Audio coming only out of one speaker
Audio Settings Menu:
HARDWARE TAB:
Internal Audio 1 Output/1 Input
Analogue Stereo ...
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How can I fix intermittent iSight camera functionality on a Macbook Pro 5,2?
I have a Macbook Pro 5,2 laptop dual booting OSX and Ubuntu. The built-in iSight video camera works only sporadically. By that I mean that sometimes if I boot and try to use the camera it does not ...
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Macbook Pro 8.1 Running OSX Lion, Windows7 and Ubuntu 11.10 Problem
I have successfully installed the above 3 operating systems.
Windows 7 fails to boot. In refit, I select it, its sends me to Ubuntu's Bootloader (Grub). There too i select Windows 7 from the list, ...
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How to install Grub2 on Macbook Pro with the grub-install command without warning about “blocklists” requiring the use of --force?
I have a Macbook Pro 5,2 and I've had a sporadic problem with having to reinstall GRUB after a system update. This has happened with several of the recent versions of Ubuntu, although I don't have an ...
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How to remove ubuntu from mac?
I installed ubuntu and linux mint into my mac. I want to remove it because I gave it too less space. Now, I don't know what to do now.
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How do I configure Display Link with my Macbook Pro? [closed]
I wondering if someone can help me configure my displaylink usb adapter to work with my macbook pro.
So far all it does is display the green screen but if i try to configure the xorg.conf file it ...
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Can't get the screen's brightness to work properly in MacBook Pro [closed]
When i turn the computer on the brightness is at it's maximum, but when I try to decrease it a little, the light gets very low and I can't increase it until I restart.
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Just updated, after reboot my computer won't start up again [closed]
I have a macbook that I use on occasion which dual boots Ubuntu and OSX (It has rEFIt installed). I turned it on for the first time in a while and it needed a bunch of updates. So I let it run, and ...
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How to improve the sound when using Skype 2.2.0.35 on 10.10?
I have a MacBookPro 5.3 equipped with Ubuntu 10.10 on which I have repeatedly tried to use Skype but the result is disappointing:
(a) while I can hear and talk (only when enabling PulseAudio), the ...
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MacBookPro 7,1 can only see one cpu
On a MacBookPro 7,1 running ubuntu 11.10, System monitor only sees 1 core (instead of 2).
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu cores'
also gives:
cpu cores : 1
I followed this guide and added ...
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UbuntuOne doesn't sync on my computer
File sync has stopped working on my computer. When I open UbuntuOne I see the following error: File Sync error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "current_status" with signature " on ...
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Sluggish/unresponsive trackpad on pre-unibody MacBook Pro
I am running Ubuntu Natty Narwhal on pre-unibody MacBook Pro (2007 I believe).
There seems to be a problem with trackpad - it barely works, in order to move cursor you have to move your finger a lot, ...
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Which is a better laptop for 11.10: Dell Precision M6600 or MacBook Pro 17-inch?
The company I work for is going to buy me a new laptop before the end of the year. Right now I use Ubuntu 11.04 on a ~3.5 year old Dell Vostro 1700. It's a dual boot install and it runs good enough, ...
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Copied files from mac partition to /root. But the /-partition is still full?
Help! Using gksu-nautilus I managed to look at files on my Mac partition via as simple right-click. However, at first journaling was still enabled on the Mac partition. Therefore any copied file would ...
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Which should I choose : Asus UX31 vs. Macbook Air
I'd like to replace my netbook (Samsung N210) by something a little bit more powerful while keeping my machine weight low and long battery life.
I currently hesitate between two machines I consider ...
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What does the AMD unsupported software message in the right corner mean?
I know that similar question was already asked but there are no information about how serious is this message. I mean, does it mean that my ATI 6750 card wasn't really recognized by proprietary driver ...
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How do I write to my Macintosh HD partition?
I have Ubuntu dual booting on my macbook. When I tried to move a file from my home folder to a folder on the mac file system it wouldn't work. In the shell I get this error
inter-device move failed:
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How to deactivate nvidia 9600M GT on a Macbookpro 5,1/5,2/5,3
I have a MacbookPro 5,1/5,2/5,3 that comes with two graphic cards, and by default I get the 9600M GT that consumes more battery that the other one. I have no idea how to deactivate it and activate the ...
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How to upgrade from 10.04 without affecting touchpad settings?
I am using a Macbook Pro 8,1 (Early 2011) model. I tried installing Ubuntu 11.10, and had issues with the touchpad. I installed 10.04 LTR over the 11.10 install (I completely wiped the hard drive and ...
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Why does my touchpad fail on resume from standby?
On resume touchpad disables and a reboot is needed to re-activate.
Macbook Pro 6.1
Ubuntu 11.10 MAC 64bit
Suspend - ok
Suspend Resume - ok
However, on resume in the loggin screen my touchpad ...
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How do I boot the live CD on a Macbook Pro?
Trying to install Ubuntu-11.10-64bit-MAC on a Macbook Pro.
But I cannot get the live CD to load.
'C' does not work
'CMD' does not work
'OPT' no opt key
CD is not corrupt and burnt using the ...
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What additional software should I install for a Macbook?
I'm new to Ubuntu, and I've installed 11.10 it on my 2006 Macbook. What else should I install to make it complete? I'm talking about drivers and the like. Is there a complete package I can download ...
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Existential dilemma [closed]
is it better to buy a normal laptop ultra-powerful, and install Ubuntu on it?, or settle for an underpowered Mac?, With money I have I can buy a normal frighteningly powerful computer, half time more ...
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Is there a way to tell where synclient gets its information from?
I have a Macbook 2,1 running Mint Katya and the touchpad config has been driving me nuts. xorg.conf seems to be ignored, so for now I've just been getting rid of it.
Running synclient, I can get ...
