Re: [Mactel-linux-users] MacBook Pro C2D and battery information (and Botcamp?)

[Stefan M. <mo...@ir...>]

> Could this be a Bootcamp issue?

No.

> I have read that Bootcamp is not necessary [3]

Unless you've installed Windows using it, you probably haven't actually used
BootCamp at all (well, maybe you've used a tiny part if you've asked it to
resize the Mac OS X partition before installing GNU/Linux).

> on these machines but I am somehow hesitant to back Gentoo up and get rid
> of Bootcamp (lack of time) before asking whether this has any chance of
> solving things and whether anybody have stumbled on the same and found any
> solution, so here I am.

You can safely get rid of it, but it won't solve your problem.

> then another question is will this impact negatively anything now working
> (most significantly the proprietary ATI drivers and/or suspend to RAM).

What you use is the "classic BIOS" which came as a firmware patch and was
first distributed by Apple around the time it started to distribute
BootCamp (because BootCamp also needs this classic BIOS), so many people
confused the two.


        Stefan