Hi Ottavio, You probably won't listen to me (I probably didn't listen to others) because these machines look so incredible and seem so nice but my advice to you is to _not_ buy an MBP, at least not any time soon. This is assuming you want to use Linux as a main OS. I love Linux and have been using it for ages but on my MBP rev 2,2 I've been using OS X almost exclusively because I don't like the sound of my fans whirring all the time and I dread thinking about what that does to this machine (see many of the other posts on this list).
First, and this is very important, I don't think the GeForce 8600m GT is even supported in Linux (check Nvidia's supported cards list). I'm guessing that, if Nvidia supports it in the next driver release then the support will be higher quality than ATI's though this is mostly due to hearsay since I've never owned an Nvidia card (but I've seen some running blazingly fast on Linux). Second, I would wait for a few more people to get the new MBP and ask them how well its supported on Linux (get on the forums on the macrumors website and maybe you can get a nice OS X tech savvy guy to try running linux on their machine). I made the mistake of just checking the mactel-linux page which paints a somewhat rosy picture of Linux support on the MBP (nothing it says is inaccurate but it doesn't high-light the infuriating and hidden issues like power consumption) and I also thought that OS X might just be a drop in replacement of Linux (again, a somewhat shallow inspection of the OS based on the fact that it seemed to have a functional terminal and could run Linux programs ;->). Anyway, just had to tell you what I thought. Incidentally, if you _can_ live with OS X this is a great machine. cheers, Sheer On 6/6/07, Ottavio Campana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Hoffman wrote: > > On 06/06/07, *Ottavio Campana* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > I'm wondering how Nvidia drivers work with efi. In order to use the ATI > > drivers bootcamp was necessary because they relied on BIOS. How do > > Nvidia drivers work? Do they still need the BIOS and therefore > > bootcamp, > > or can we get rid of it? > > > > > > hi Ottavio. what do you mean by BootCamp being necessary to use the ATI > > drivers? i use the ATI drivers but don't use BootCamp... > > really? I'm buying a mbp in the next days and therefore I haven't tried > yet, but reading some pages I always found that ati drivers require a > legacy bios. > > For example, here http://modular.math.washington.edu/macbook/ I found > > | I reconfigured my laptop to tri boot OS X/ XP / Linux. This was the > | only way I could find to have both OS X and Linux and get legacy BIOS > | emulation, so that I could get accelerated 3d graphics, > > moreover > > | I was able to compile the closed source radeon drivers somehow, but > | they don't work since I haven't enabled BIOS emulation yet. > > so I assumed that they need the bios provided by bootcamp. > > Did things change? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
