[olug] Linux on Mac Book Air 2011

[Cooper Vertz]

Thanks!  That is one of the builds I tried.  When I found it was optimistic,
but the video's still blown and the install failed.

FWIW, the windows8 metro DR is also unusable on the same machine, with
almost identical graphics problems.
(top half looks ok but bottom half is a distorted copy of top half)


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:

> hey Cooper
>
> here is the link to the oneiric daily builds (sorry I did not have this
> earlier), make sure you read the
> notes and commentary.  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
>
> Also I know a few olug'ers have had Fedora running on Mac, maybe they'll
> chime in.
>
> In the meantime, good luck
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Matthew Botts <mbotts00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have installed Ubuntu on a few Intel MacBooks, and have never had an
> > issue
> > other than the internal wireless. That issue was resolved by utilizing
> > proprietary drivers.
> > On Sep 28, 2011 8:40 PM, "Chad Homan" <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There is a Mac specific version of ubuntu for oneiric. Its available
> > daily
> > > builds. I personally don't have a Mac so looking forward to your review
> > > On Sep 28, 2011 7:12 PM, "Cooper Vertz" <olug at vertz.info> wrote:
> > >> I have tried 3 ubuntus and 3 redhats. None will work on my 13"
> > MBAir-2011.
> > >>
> > >> Has anyone had success? Video is the biggest problem, but nomodeset
> > isn't
> > >> helping me.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
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