Hi,
I bought mine yesterday....and itś shiny, shiny...
But, there are buts...a lot of buts...I mean, I use debian, is my os, and I
love it, but the instalation in the new MBP..argghhh!!
First of all, the ethernet card is missing -at least the drivers - the only
ones that the MBP have knowledge are the firewire ones, -I do not know if
this use to happen in the other MBP - due to I use to be a user of the black
macbook, but till I configure my wifi it had been a horrible, horrible
situation...
There is package for the new and great Nvidia grphs. But until you configure
it, you cannot use the X, so : without inet and x, it had been a long, long,
loooooong, installation.
I do not know if there is a easy mode or an easy linux distro to install
(maybe kubuntu...), but I had spend the last 36 hours, trying to install all
my etchy, and I haven't finish yet.
So, if anyone have finished and want to share his/her experience, please,
please, please,....do it.
Best Regards!!
2007/6/6, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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?
>
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