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For a more detailed guide walking you through partitioning, rEFIt installation have a look in my Signature (dual/triple boot).

Haven't notices anything to that effect - the guide that I followed even stated to put GRUB on the same Partition as Linux as rEFIt finds all Bootloaders on the device.

Had the stupid case that I...

I have complied a helpful guide that should walk you through every step of installing Ubuntu on your MacBook. Just have a look in my Signature for the dual/triple booting guide.

I am not 100% sure but as far as I know there is no dynamic GPU switching - the Nvidia GPU works with best with the propritory drivers you can load.

I have compiled a list of Instructions that may...

Also have a look at the Dual/Triple Booting guide in my Signature I wrote up some time ago.

It will walk you trough the partitioning, installation and configuration.

Let us know if you have any...

Since rEFIt is not a bootloader but simply a "bootloader selector" you still need grub - the next best thing you can do is just reduce the timeout of grub to 0/1 sec depending on wether you want to...

Have a look at my dual/triple boot how to guide in my Signature that should walk you through the process of getting dual boot working with rEFIt.

If you have any further questions just post here.

Does it work on 10.04?
- will have to try again tonight - are there any particular settings?

I have only managed to achive the double fingered secondary click when clicking on the desktop but as...

Has that banner been created by any chance?

So no two fingered secondary click - really find that useful.

Have you tried fixing OS X with the OS X DVD's. Once repaired it should only boot into OS X from where you can install rEFIt.

There is a chance that it may destroy your Linux installation but that...

@alexmurray - have you had a chance to evaluate multitouch functionality yet?

Thanks for your replay - I wasn't intending on upgrading prior to the release - I was just wondering if and what experience has been gathered so far running on Apple Hardware.

... any particular problems as to why you do not intend to upgrade/install 10.10 soon?

I know 10.10 is still in beta - since multi-touch support is being shipped with it (along with plenty of other nice features).

I was wondering weather anyone bothered to upgrade yet and if has...

The latest Ubuntu Documentation is for Ubutu Jaunty but it should still help you to get things up and running:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro2-1_2-2/Jaunty
and...

What Mac + Version do you have - also it would help if you could point out witch Ubuntu release you installed.

If you have an Intel based Mac there are the mactel packages witch will get most...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacPro

This has been discussed before - it boils down to this.

-shorten Grub timeout to 1/0 Seconds (depending on weather you want to be able to utilise Grub at all by quickly holding down an arrow key...

Hi,

I am just wondering - I know on good old PC's you defiantly should install the boot loader to the primary partition.

But at least my (rather limited) experience with Intel Macs following a...

Hi,
its best to just put grub on the same partition as your Linux installation (even so it doesn't make a difference if you put it on any other partition, its just cleaner).

rEFIt will find all...

oh - just figured it out.

The iPhone is a single plug for both audio in- and out-put.
However our MBP's (and all Notebooks known to me) have separate ports for audio in and audio out - so off...

rEFIt is an opensource OS Selector for Mac's. You can download it from here:
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
Just install it in OS X.

You are best of following the instructions listed in this...

Hi,
SwedishWings coded a Fan Control daemon that works pretty well on MacBook's and MacBook Pro's (as most of us have experience Heat/Fan issues).
Have a look at it, it may solve your fan control...

Hi,
if I where you I wouldn't use bootcamp to install Ubuntu or any other Linux flavour on your Mac - have a look at the instructions I posted for Dual/Triple Booting with rEFIt - its really simple...