philcolbourn
March 15th, 2009, 07:59 AM
I have put together a script to do most of the things listed in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro4-1/Intrepid and related posts.
It will not run unless the hardware is a MacBook Pro 4,1, and it is only for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid).
It could be modified for other Macs and Ubuntu versions if someone has the time.
It is not perfect: the touchpad fdi file works fie but not all the options are set for some reason that I do not yet understand. Everything else seems fine so far.
Lots of things work well: Apple remote, sleep/resume, touchpad (could be better though), display brightness, keyboard backlight and compiz (with Nvidia driver).
The script is written in such a way that any error will halt the script with a (hopefully) useful error message.
At the moment it comes in two parts: a little script to append lines to a file, and the actual install script.
It is safe to run over and over again, even if you have implemented some of the recommendations already - but at your own risk. It should do no harm, but check the files that are modified for any oddness or duplication.
The first script called pc-add-config-line.sh and the main script is called pc-macbook-pro4-1-intrepid-fixup.sh
Both can be installed in your home directory.
It will not run unless the hardware is a MacBook Pro 4,1, and it is only for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid).
It could be modified for other Macs and Ubuntu versions if someone has the time.
It is not perfect: the touchpad fdi file works fie but not all the options are set for some reason that I do not yet understand. Everything else seems fine so far.
Lots of things work well: Apple remote, sleep/resume, touchpad (could be better though), display brightness, keyboard backlight and compiz (with Nvidia driver).
The script is written in such a way that any error will halt the script with a (hopefully) useful error message.
At the moment it comes in two parts: a little script to append lines to a file, and the actual install script.
It is safe to run over and over again, even if you have implemented some of the recommendations already - but at your own risk. It should do no harm, but check the files that are modified for any oddness or duplication.
The first script called pc-add-config-line.sh and the main script is called pc-macbook-pro4-1-intrepid-fixup.sh
Both can be installed in your home directory.