I don't know about sensors. Trisquel uses nouveau driver for NVIDIA since the
version 5.5.
Some info here:,
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/PowerManagement
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro7-1/Quantal
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro7-1/Oneiric
But CD/DVD writing is easy to know. Try to burn one ;-)
If you have some effects on default Trisquel (with Compiz) nouveau worked.
Try: Super (Command) + S and Super + W
Or you can test GNOME Shell:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
After log out and choose the user to login and change GNOME Classic for GNOME
in the login screen (GDM).
If it works share for others:
http://h-node.org/notebooks/view/en/236/Macbook-Pro-7-1 (out of date - only
tested with 4.5 without nouveau, only worked without 3D acceleration)
