MacBookAir4,1 & MacBookAir4,2 (MBA 2011) support

[zmiq2]

Hi dfacto,

many thanks for your reply, but for me re-installing is not an option .... (unless I cannot get it working in two moths)

I'll try your hints about the fans.

On the other hand, are you able to connect an external display without any problems?


Thanks

[dfacto]

I don't have an adapter so I cannot test an external display.

In general I am not an advocate of re-installing as this is a Windows-type "solution." I just went this route because I wanted to test the out-of-box-ness of the latest release.

In any event, what prevents you from doing this? In my case I just rsync-ed everything to another computer, re-installed, and rsync-ed back. (Strictly speaking I didn't need to do this since I do have a separate home partition, but since I had partition-table issues the first time I was cautious...which is always recommended anyway.)

[zmiq2]

I don't want to re-install because it's my main computer, and I don't want to risk and spend the time and effort to rebuild it, call me lazy ....., re-installing is too-windows for me and there's no proof that re-installing will make it work.

I'll keep an eye on google to see if the issue gets solved sometime ....


Thanks anyway!

[zmiq2]

Hi again,

after today updates, I still have problems with the external monitor.

But I have good news: external monitor works as expected when booting with linux kernel 3.2.0-21 (current one, 3.2.0-22 doesn't work).


HTH

[zmiq2]

I'm still facing problems with the external monitor; with kernels 3.2.0-22 and -21, I have finally found a consistent way to have the external monitor working:

boot without external monitor
log into X
connect external monitor -> doesn't work

repeat about 2/3 times:
disconnect external monitor
suspend
connect external monitor
resume

It worked for me for 3.2.0-22 and -21 kernels. Probably there's a better way, but meanwhile I'm sticking to this.

HTH

[dfacto]

If that works then surely xrandr will do the trick.

[zmiq2]

With latest update, kernel 3.2.0-23, external monitor seems to work ok!!

Now I can recommend going to ubuntu 12.04:

- everything seems snapier

- ubuntu works out-of-the-box

Happy camper now !

[dvarnes]

With latest update, kernel 3.2.0-23, external monitor seems to work ok!!

Now I can recommend going to ubuntu 12.04:

- everything seems snapier

- ubuntu works out-of-the-box

Happy camper now !

zmiq2: What resolution is your external monitor ?

[zmiq2]

Hi,

I have a 1920x1200 (dell 24'').

But, even my earlier post, I still have some problems with the external monitor, which the only way I found to have it solved is to go through a supend-resume cycles (normally 2) until it works.

I have found another problem: when playing a video (mp4 or avi, not flash), using the Video Player or mplayer, my computer hungs; mouse moves, but gnome is freezed, keyboard doesn't work, and the only way is to recover is power cycle the computer.

Any hints about this video issue?

Thanks in advance.

[Zeleran]

Not sure if this should be here or in the mtrack thread, think it fits both...

Anyways, just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my MBA 4,2 last night, and I cannot get the trackpad to work at all. It was working with basic function (moving around and left clicking) before I ran the post-install-oneiric.sh script, but after that it doesn't work at all.

That script was supposed to install mtrack, and it said it did it correctly, so I'm a bit stumped as to what went wrong.