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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    Quote Originally Posted by fooblahblah View Post
    Got me. I'm running Arch Maybe one the Ubuntu folks will provide more context here.
    besides that, I can not undersand if the current version of the kernel (3.4.7) were included some of these patches(lvds dual channel, etc etc), given that i must compile grub 2 with UEFI support to boot correctly.

    I would initially be able to use only the intel integrated card and then try the amd

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    I don't think 3.4 has the patches, 3.6 has at least the lvs ones by default it seems and i guess gmux/backlight as well?

    At least i'm using 3.4.7 and had to use the patches.

    What is the best way to be able to use both gpus with the radeon/intel combo? is the automatic switching nvidia only?

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    I may be a bit late; but it looks like it is now possible to get vgaswitcheroo fully working using a different kernel patch. Anyone tried that?

    http://ck.kennt-wayne.de/2012/jun/ge...o-82-late-2011
    Last edited by seb.belese; August 23rd, 2012 at 08:46 AM.

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    Quote Originally Posted by seb.belese View Post
    I may be a bit late; but it looks like it is now possible to get vgaswitcheroo fully working using a different kernel patch. Anyone tried that?

    http://ck.kennt-wayne.de/2012/jun/ge...o-82-late-2011

    thanks, this post helped me a lot!!

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    anyone got the iso2usb method to work with a mbpro 8,2, mine freezes on launching kernel, but i can listen to ubuntu live sound so i think that there is a problem with graphic cards and framebuffer.

    reference: http://tillmail.de/wordpress/436

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    so i'm writing here again and again because i cant get this s##t to work in any flavour!!!

    Following http://dentifrice.poivron.org/laptops/macbookpro8,2/ is no more useful since kernel 3.1 package is deleted and i cant find it anywere, the patches were for this kernel and dont work on newer ones(tried 3.2 3.5 3.6), so the procedure is null and the BLACK screen is the only thing that appears with any grub2 parameters.

    Follwing http://ck.kennt-wayne.de/2012/jun/ge...o-82-late-2011 is the same, it just does not work. How do you download, TODAY, the kernel 3.5-rc4? I cant find it out so the procedure is null, plus, i dont want to switch cards, so the procedure, if not null, wont fit my case.

    So, today is 22 October 2012, the last kernel on debian sid is 3.2, the last kernel on kernel.org is 3.6, the last kernel on ubuntu and gentoo is 3.5...so:


    1. What patches for what kernel are needed?
    2. I dont want switcheroo or radeon, i just want i915, what patches for what kernel drivers are needed?
    3. What grub.cfg with what parameters are needed? Old pre 3.5 ones or new ones?
    4. What is the ACTUAL situation? LVDS fix is required for WHAT kernels? BACKLIGHT fix is required for what kernels? WIFI is fixed for WHAT kernels?

    Thanks for any help, i getting crazy for this!
    Last edited by supermario87; October 22nd, 2012 at 02:54 PM.

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    Supermario, You'd be blessed if you installed Archlinux. Everything works wonders, you'll soon forget about this thread

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    Quote Originally Posted by vasdilito View Post
    Supermario, You'd be blessed if you installed Archlinux. Everything works wonders, you'll soon forget about this thread
    Just curious. Are you using the default Arch kernel or a custom AUR build? I'm running the latest kernel 3.6.3 and still have been adding radeon_bios hack and apple_backlight patches. Everything else seems to work pretty well.

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    I just installed quantal (gnome version), and i915 works perfectly without any patch (kernel 3.5.0-17) with backlight control and keyboard light control. However, I think there are still patches needed for vgaswitcheroo. I'm gonna try that soon.

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    Re: Macbook Pro 8,1 + Maverick

    I just built kernel 3.6.3 on ArchLinux and I used the radeon bios patch and the Intel backlight fix too. I haven't used the radeon for a while, only the Intel. I was just going on fooblahblah's recommendation.

    One thing I didn't see anywhere was how to make the SD card reader work with newish SDHC-I cards. I've got a couple of Sandisk Extreme cards which I couldn't mount. I'd always get errors like:

    Code:
    [ 3.199696] sdhci: Switching to 1.8V signalling voltage failed, retrying with S18R set to 0
    [ 3.221029] mmc0: error -84 whilst initialising SD card
    I found a patch here, which worked a treat:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-la...le/+bug/910835

    I think this probably isn't specific to our Macbook Pro's, but probably a lot of machines with in-built SD card readers.

    HTH
    Last edited by andybotting; October 26th, 2012 at 04:53 AM.

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