Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MacBook Pro 8.2

[cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...>]

What would be different for Debian ?

 Ricky

On Nov 2, 2011, at 4:40 AM, mike dentifrice <fl...@po...> wrote:

> Johannes Graumann said:
>>> There's a very long thread on Ubuntuforums about this, and many
>>> people have reported success (though it involves de-activating the
>>> ATI card and using the intel HD as far as I understood, *and* EFI
>>> booting to be able to do so) :
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746
>> 
>> Thanks for the link, yet I believe that's for 8,1 and there's plenty
>> of howtos regarding that around. The only one on 8,2 I was able to
>> find is on the gentoo forums, but I am yet to succeed ...
> 
> Don't pay attention to the forum thread title. As you must know, forums
> are generally quite messy compared to mailing-lists, as people tend to
> deviate from the original subject.
> 
> I went through quite some of the posts and it's about running GNU/Linux
> (mostly Ubuntu but not exclusively) on all 8th generation MacBookPro
> models; I got the impression there was actually way more posts about the
> 15" & 17" models in this thread since they have more issues (dual
> graphics, etc.).
> 
> It's a very long read but there's very interesting info scattered
> around.
> 
> PS: if you succeed with Debian you should add a Changelog/HOWTO to the
>    Debian wiki on http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple
> 
> -- 
> mike dentifrice <fl...@po...>
> 
> 
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