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I'm running 14.04 on a single partition which uses the btrfs filesystem. The system was installed from the 13 version installer, so it has the usual @ and @home subvolumes. I'm running this...

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I'm booting in EFI stub mode directly from rEFInd in a macbookpro8,2. This means I have the radeon card working and active. I would like now to get vgaswitcheroo working. It reports both cards...

I've documented the steps needed in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro8-2/Raring

I was able to get the radeon working by booting directly through refind using efi stub boot. This should be documented !!!! I've lost countless hours on this ! (I'm willing to document, if I know...

Yes, I can boot with a usb key in efi mode, but I've never been able to boot in bios mode with either cd or usb pen.

It doesn't matter, I've managed to get the radeon card working by booting with...

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I want to get my radeon card working on a macbookpro8,2. To do that I need to boot in bios mode and dump the bios. I don't have an internal cd drive (removed and changed to another harddrive)....

What is the model of the macbook pro ?



sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

if you have two graphic cards you probably need to boot in efi mode using rfefit and change the grub entry...

Hi Hadaka,



Yes, they are installed:


miguel@miguel-MacBookPro:~$ dpkg -l | grep b43
ii b43-fwcutter 1:015-14 amd64 ...

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I have a macbookpro8,2 and I'm running the b43 driver for wireless. I never loose the wireless connection but every couple of minutes I can't send or receive any data, I can't ping any machine....

I'ts a macbookpro 8,2 with a Radeon HD 6490M:




Radeon HD 6490M*
VRAM Type:
GDDR5

I tried installing the proprietary amd drivers but they fail to load. Find attached the dmesg log.



dmesg | grep fglrx

[ 5.513870] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI...

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After having a read a bunch of posts I'm still unclear on how to
1) Use the radeon graphics card
2) Switch between graphics card.

My current configuration is ubuntu13.04 with kernel...

I have the some problem, plus I use btrfs, which means that when I run out of space I can't even delete files... How do we fix this ? Has this bug been reported ?

Ok, I tried that without success:


miguel@miguel-MacBookPro:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial$ sudo modprobe
-r bcma
miguel@miguel-MacBookPro:/var/cache/apt/archives/partial$ sudo apt-get...

miguel@miguel-MacBookPro:~$ dmesg | grep -e bcma -e b43
[ 114.137785] bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0x4331, rev 0x02 and package 0x09
[ 114.137824] bcma: bus0: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf...

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Yes, there are many files in that folder.




"sudo modprobe bcma" runs without any output or errors.

Yes, indeed I made a confusion, the command whose output I posted was "sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source", I had read on some forum this could solve my problem. I have also tried...

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I'm running ubuntu 13.04. When I installed it on my MacBookpro8,2 I was able to install the drivers by doing "sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree". After I installed the lowlatency...