Christopher cv, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't
been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an
issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development
release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from
I´ve just managed to get the 12.04 LiveCD to boot into a GUI on my
MacBook Pro 5,2
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor:Apple Inc.
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version: MBP52.88Z.008E.B05.0905042202
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date:05/04/09
/sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor:Apple Inc.
System rebooted OK, had to add same options to grub to get GUI to
display. Once up and running installed the restricted NVidia drivers
and rebooted.
Booted to GUI with no additional options added to grub, NVidia splash
screen displayed briefly then default desktop.
Now to get rEFIt back as the
@Tomodachi - if you note, the bug refers to the nouveau driver, not the
binary one - with the nouveau driver it fails to successfully boot
UNLESS acceleration is disabled - ie. it only boot successfully if you
add:
nouveau.noaccel=1
to the kernel command line
The second issue is then that Xorg
How exactly can I find out if my MBP 5,2 has two video cards? I was not
aware of this...
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546393
Title:
MacBook Pro 5,1 / 5,2 / 5,3 / 5,5 fails to boot
If it definitely is a MacBook Pro (emphasis on the Pro) then it does (a
lower powered 9400M and a higher powered 9600M GT - you should be able
to see both under OSX which boot via native EFI) - however by default
Ubuntu will boot via BIOS emulation in which case the 9400M is
automatically disabled
Im surprised to see MBP5.1 users having problems with booting into Ubuntu.
ive run ubuntu successfully for the last three releases when using the
proprietary nvidia driver
What usually messed things up for me was what card was selected in OSX as the
active card.
toggling this might be what
** Summary changed:
- MacBook Pro 5,1 / 5,2 / 5,3 / 5,5 fails to boot into 10.04 desktop
+ MacBook Pro 5,1 / 5,2 / 5,3 / 5,5 fails to boot into 12.04 desktop
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