My Macbook 5,1 died unexpectedly the other day -- the LCD screen dissolved to white and would only show white on subsequent reboots, although i could hear MacOSX booting up in the background. After...
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My Macbook 5,1 died unexpectedly the other day -- the LCD screen dissolved to white and would only show white on subsequent reboots, although i could hear MacOSX booting up in the background. After...
Hmmm, I get a segfault when running glxinfo, also as root:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
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Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
Xlib: extension "GLX"...
In regards to battery life, has anyone else noticed that the optical out is always on in (K)ubuntu but not OSX (Macbook 5,1)? It's a red light coming out of the headphone jack even when no sound is...
I think I'm running the nvidia 177.80 drivers unless they auto-updated, not sure how to check that.
Nov 30 14:49:46 tremalking kernel: [ 16.581135] mbp_nvidia_bl: MacBook 5,1 detected
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Sorry to mess up the post count, and I should say I haven't had the time to understand this whole thread, but the 'echo' command to change the brightness works fine inside X11 using Kubuntu (KDE...