The brightness problem has been around for five or six years now; there is no solution currently (and I've lost all hope that there will ever be one). linux cannot access the backlight settings of...
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The brightness problem has been around for five or six years now; there is no solution currently (and I've lost all hope that there will ever be one). linux cannot access the backlight settings of...
Since ubuntu 17.10 defaults to Gnome on wayland, I was wondering if anyone has experimented with this on mac hardware. I have an iMac 2011 with a radeon video card (6650 HD), booted in EFI mode....
Yes, this has been made more difficult in recent versions of Gnome and Unity - supposedly, they want users to concentrate on their real task (admire the sleek graphics) and not fiddle with their...
I don't have the knowledge for extensive testing, just some anecdotal evidence: I took the Sandisk Cruzer that I had prepared following Quackers' great tutorial, wiped the content and used unetbootin...
Sure, glad to be of help:
USB stick: SanDisk Cruzer, 8GB
I used linuxmint xfce edition, 64bit (but will happily try other ubuntu editions)
syslinux: version 6.01
mbr.bin was in...
I just wanted to thank you for your detailed explanations, your efforts are highly appreciated. I followed your instructions, and for the first time, unetbottin created a USB stick that would boot...
That's because you are looking at the wrong readings... The critical temperature is the GPU. You can get it with this command:
sensors | grep TG0d
Under OS X, the radeon card runs around 50 ° C,...
Hi,
well, sorry to say, but again: depends on what you mean when you write "My intention is to move that hard drive to my Mac mini." If you simply want to take the same drive and reformat it, that...
Maybe the following hints will be of interest or even use to someone out there. I see questions about similar topics in the forum quite a lot, so I wanted to summarize my experience. I have an iMac...
Depends on what you mean when you write "bootable usb hard disk." If you want to boot an (intel) Mac from an external hard disk, it must have a GUID partition table. If you install grub-efi to such a...
OK, before someone jumps in and complains that your post is long on whining ("woe is me") and telling us how awesome you are ("no slouch with Bash or the command line"), but short on useful...
I also boot linux from an external (firewire) drive, but most of this is still a mystery to me. That being said: I think both the apple bootloader and grub expect their files in a certain directory...
google is your friend: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard#Change_Function_Key_behavior
Thank you. Looks like the ppa is structured in a way that it cannot directly be added, but downloading manually and installing via dpkg worked, and first tests were good: max temperature around 91...
This sounds promising. Did you get the kernel and these debs from the kernel-mainline ppa?
I was going to post that Ubuntu 12.10 handles the MBA better, but after one hour of light use, I get temperatures in the 90˚C range. I had hoped that the kernel 3.5 would make progress in this area,...
When you're booted under OS X, go to System Preferences ==> Startup Disk and click on your internal disk. At the next reboot, you should be good. I've seen the same behavior with my macs, and I...
No no, I'm really interested in these questions of how to boot apple hardware. I found your guide interesting (though I have no need of such a setup myself), and I have just a few small questions:
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Highly unlikely. From what I've learned in the past, for the boot sequence on the Mac, the memory card is treated like a USB drive. Macs will only boot from USB drives if they have a GPT partition...
If you insist on performing "a handful of manual steps at most," yes, you may be out of luck. If you want a USB that boots both on your Macbook and on generic PC hardware, I think this is definitely...
I'm looking at CPU temperature in both OS X and Ubuntu. Some quick and unscientific tests show: when process the same long and complex document, in OS X temperature rises to ~ 90˚, fans stay at...
Yes, I have no doubt that there's something wrong. But to be quite honest - even your numbers don't look that reassuring. In OS X, I've never seen the fan going up to 6000. It seems that linux...
Can any of those running ubuntu on the MBA tell me about its temperature? I have the 11" model and installed the latest linux mint last week (double-boot), and in principle, everything works well...
This is an issue of the interplay between kernel, firmware, xorg, and the binary drivers, so it's not a simple issue of checking something to prevent this - there is a good chance that your...
I boot linux from an external USB hard disk on my iMac, with grub-efi. Setting it up wasn't too hard. But since the OP finds it cumbersome to read documentation, I assume he must be looking for paid...