Questions tagged [macbook]
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 specific to MacBook Air or MacBook Pro.
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18.04: Macbook pro mid 2012 runs very hot
I'm not doing anything but web browsing with Firefox, yet my MacBook Pro (ca. mid-2012) is very hot. I have 8GB of RAM so it's not a problem. There is about 5GB available at the moment. I tried a ...
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Distorted / crackling audio: Ubuntu 19.10 on MacBook 7.1, 2010
I have installed Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) on a MacBook 7,1, Mid-2010, A1342. Unfortunately (unlike Ubuntu 19.04), the audio is not working properly, it's very choppy and distorted.
inxi -A :
Audio:...
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External microphone (headset) doesn't work on Macbook Pro 2015 (19.04)
Just installed Ubuntu 19.04 on my Macbook Pro 13" from 2015 and it works so great compared to OS X Mojave, but the problem is that it doesn't recognize any other microphone than the Built-in.
I ...
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MacBook 2006 install failure
I have recently upgraded an old MacBook 2006, added RAM to the maximum allowed, and replaced the original HDD with an SSD.
I want to boot any Linux system on it, as the only OS.
I have tried ...
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How can I improve the trackpad response on a Macbook Pro 11.5?
I have installed Ubuntu 17.10 on a Macbook Pro 11.5. It all works fine out of the box, but I have few problems. The trackpad sensitivity is very low, so when I make very fine movements on the trackpad ...
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macbook pro 15 can't shutdown on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS , still that screen
In My Macbook Pro 15, Dual-Boot OS X and Ubuntu: on Ubuntu everything is ok and when I execute shutdown -h now, still this screen:
efibootmgr info:
BootCurrent:0000
BootOrder:0000,0001,0081
Boot0000*...
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MacBook Pro 15" won't wake up after suspending or closing the lid in Ubuntu 15.10
Whenever I close the lid of my Macbook Pro 15" (2015 model) or suspend it, my screen becomes black but all my keys stay lit up. I then cannot wake up the laptop or get to the login screen. The only ...
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Install Ubuntu (and windows) to Macbook 2.1 (late 2006)
I have a Macbook 2.1 "late 2006" and for a couple of years I've been using the next (rare) setup of Operating Systems:
Partition 1: MAC OS X (Snow Leopard)
Partition 2: Windows Vista and Ubuntu by ...
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NOUVEAU on 2013 15" macbook 14.04 crashes on resume
I have a 2013 Macbook Pro 15" (Macbook 11,3). My laptop works perfectly fine except awaking from suspend. I can see the screen, the keyboard does not work after waking up and my laptop (at least my ...
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In Ubuntu 12.04, odd whining/humming coming from left side of MBP (2,2)
I have been searching for a similar issue to mine, but unfortunately haven't found anything.
Anyhow, this week I installed 12.04 on my 2006 MBP (2,2). Pretty much everything seems to work OK, but ...
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How to get sound on macbook pro 4,1
I have just installed Xubuntu 12.04.2. My soundcard is detected:
thomas@thomas-pc:~$ sudo aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
Home directory /home/thomas not ours.
card 0: Intel [HDA ...
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Right Click on Macbook 7.1 (Ubuntu 12.10)?
There's two things I love: Ubuntu and my Macbook. Unfortunately the right click (= click with two fingers) is just a real pain. Is there a way to have my right click in the right bottom corner of my ...
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Wireless Connection Freezes on a Macbook Pro (early 2010 model) with a BCM4322
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2010 model), and I've been having problems with the network connection periodically stopping. The wireless network indicator shows that the signal is at full strength (it ...
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No sound out of MacBook speakers & red LED in headphone jack
I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Macbook and after a few days I am now getting very low sound from the speakers as well a red LED is glowing in the Headphone jack.
The sound is perfect if ...
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MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar - Dual-Booting Ubuntu [duplicate]
I bought the new MBP 2016 with Touch Bar. So far I know that Touch Bar is not available for Ubuntu users, but it is fine. I think this technology will be available in a couple of months. Does anyone ...
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How do I uninstall Ubuntu from my MacBook and replace it back to mac?
I recently switched my old 2006 I believe MacBook to Ubuntu because I wanted to try it out for a couple of things. I decided to reformat since I didn't have the space to dual-boot, but now when I want ...
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Getting wireless to work on Ubuntu 11.10 (on a mac machine)
I have a 2008 white 13.3 inch macbook that now solely runs ubuntu. However, I cannot get wifi or cable to work on it. Regarding the cable, it atleast tries to connect but eventually disconnects from ...
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install ubuntu on macbook 9,1 (released 2016)
I just got a new Macbook 9,1 (released in 2016, and not Macbook Pro 9,1!!) and am new to Ubuntu. Does Macbook 9,1 support the latest verison of Ubuntu?
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Macbook Pro 16.04 wifi driver Installed but not available
On both Ubuntu and Ubuntu Gnome, I have working wifi in the installer, but not after. There is no wireless device in the network settings, and I've tried the following with no luck:
WIfi Issues with ...
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Is Unity causing my Macbook to run near-burning hot?
I have a macbook 5,1 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed. Using the default Unity interface (that is, compiz).
With time the case on where the GPU is located gets very hot, a few more degrees and I'd ...
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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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Can I unlock Mac folders from a USB stick?
I use a Macbook. The folders appear to be locked with a lock icon( like Music, Video etc.). The folders like documents seem to be working fine. I can't do anything on my mac as it is not booting but i ...
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Why there is no 32bit EFI boot available on current ISOs?
I have an old Macbook 3.1 with a broken disk drive. I was going to throw it to the trash when I found EFIs boot great solution which works from USB pendrive. I was able to install Ubuntu 64bits on ...
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How do I map SysReq to a key on my MacBook keyboard?
My Macbook laptop keyboard doesn't have a SysReq key. Can I change an existing key to act like SysReq?
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Bluetooth Low Energy on Ubuntu virtualized through VMWare Fusion Pro on Mac
I'm trying to do a BLE scan and ultimately use gatttool to debug a BLE device on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
I'm virtualizing the Ubuntu image using VMware Pro 8.1.1 on a 2014 retina MacBook Pro. I can ...
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Drivers / setup for Macbook Pro 11,3 webcam and Ubuntu 14.10?
I've not been able to find any documentation on whether or not I should expect to be able to make the webcam work on my Macbook Pro 11,3 with Ubuntu 14.10. Would appreciate guidance.
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Removing fallback efi from refind
I've installed the latest refind to manage a ssd partitioned with OSX and Ubuntu. This has been working great and has been set up exactly how I wanted it until a recent dist-upgrade.
For some reason ...
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How do I disable the touchpad while typing on Macbook?
I have a Macbook Pro 5.5 and I can't disable the touchpad while I'm typing. I have tried downloading gsynaptics manager or something like that, but still no dice!
This is driving me up the wall, ...
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My computer runs slower now on Ubuntu
Recently I have been noticing that my laptop's speed has decreased after installing Ubuntu. I am on a MacBook Pro and I have 4.2GHz and 4GB of RAM. I used to play games like Minecraft before on it ...
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Microphone doesn't work after rebooting on a Macbook 2.1
I am running Xubuntu 12.04 on a Macbook 2.1 intel duo. But the problem existed on Ubuntu 12.04 too.
After booting up, the internal microphone doesn't work. After opening the Pulse Audio settings and ...
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Black MacBook Webcam not working
I have a 2006 13 inch macbook that I put Ubuntu on after buying a new hard drive. Everything is working great, however, I can't seem to get the webcam to work. I was pretty sure I'm missing a driver ...
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Duplicating Ubuntu from external hard drive to internal SSD?
I have been trying to install Ubuntu for the last few days and have had no success at installing to my internal SSD. After trying to format it in Mac OS X and GParted (Which always resulted in a ...
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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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Unity doesn't look right when running in Parallels
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on my 2010 13' macbook pro using Parallels Desktop 6. I can run Ubuntu Classic perfectly, no lags and everything just works out of the box. When I try to run standard Ubuntu ...
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Audio not working Macbook Air 3,2 Nvidia MCP89
I've upgraded to ubuntu 11.04 and since then the audio stopped working (I was on 10.10 before that).
I'm using a Macbook Air 3,2 and these are details of my audio card:
description: Audio ...
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Which Live CD should I use to repair my ext4 partition on a MacBook Pro?
I have been affected by an ext4 unmountable problem.
The suggested solution is to run e2fsck in a live CD. Ubuntu can't be used because it periodically tries to mount the partition (/dev/sda3 in my ...
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Can I use an Ubuntu bootable USB on a MacBook Air M1?
I seem to be not able to boot my MacBook Air from a bootable USB with Ubuntu installed. I had found earlier that there was no support on M1 for Linux-based OS.
Is it still true or has someone found a ...
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Ubuntu 18 installation on a MacBook 6.2 (mid 2010) has graphics and overheating issues
I attempted to restore a MacBook 6.2 (mid 2010) that was very slow with the factory-hardware-configuration in early 2020 (4 GB RAM, GeForce GT 330M dedicated graphics board, and Intel Core i5). First, ...
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Cannot install macbook webcam driver on Ubuntu 20.04
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a Macbook 12" (early 2016, 1.1GHz), and the camera is not working. I tried to follow the steps:
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install curl xzcat cpio
git clone ...
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Why does xdotool right click not work with every application?
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 3 works as right-click in firefox and chromium-browser, but not in all programs such as Thunar file manager and xfce4-terminal. Why is that?
In terminal, if I run the ...
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Ubuntu on Macbook: How to restore default boot to Ubuntu?
I have a Macbook pro (late 2015) with two partitions: one with Mac OS and the other one with an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system. It was always booting to Ubuntu by default and I used the Alt-key on ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 on Macbook 8,1 CPU and integrated GPU overheating issues
Just did a fresh wipe/install on a Macbook 8,1 that was given to me from UEFI USB. I have a personal hatred for OSX. It has decent machine specs, and I am getting into Linux because I work in IT. I'm ...
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ALSA Mixer settings won't save (Kubuntu)
Since I've been using Linux on my Macbook I've noticed that there's a red light constantly shining out of the headphone port on the left side of the machine. This doesn't happen on OS X, I've checked.
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Recovering data from a corrupted HFS+ partition
I have an old Macbook from the year 2006, (Intel CPU)
The OS (Mac OS X 10.6.8) suddenly stoped working, not sure why...
So I decided to use a Ubuntu Live Boot (USB), (The CD Reader is dead)
to boot ...
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Macbook Retina Display Scalling- Web Browsers
I've done the regular scaling from the display settings and the icons and desktop are adequately scaled but the text in the web browsers are still not on the adjusted scale, making everything in the ...
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Macintosh HD will only mount ro, because it is journaled
A little history first, I've installed 14.04 on another partition of a MacBook 5.1 because of a completely botched Mavericks upgrade which has left OS X unusable. I had to use rEFInd to get it to ...
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Fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 with only one partition: can I add a /home partition now?
I installed a fresh Ubuntu 13.04 on my Macbook Pro (5,3 edition, 2009, SATA hard drive, 320 Gbytes). I used the automatic partition. Now I'd like to put my /HOME on a new partition so that, if I ever ...
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How to activate and use F-keys (F1, F2, etc..) on a Mac Book Pro Laptop-Keyboard in Gnome-Shell 3.2?
I am wondering if there is a shortcut or where and how to active the F-keys on a QWERTZ build-in MBP keyboard.
Any suggestions ?!
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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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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 ...