At last I’ve got my brand new MacBook. Double boot with MacOSX, thanks to the very good Ubuntu MacBook guide; partitioning and installation did take about 2 hours. But then, I’ve still some problems, many of which are surely limitations of mine:
- Ubuntu CD Boot did ignore my keystrokes until it did get in graphical mode. This meant I couldn’t apply the lpj hack at first. Luckily, it seems that the problem was not relevant to my mac (I applied it anyway afterwards, adding the “lpj=8000000″ the the commented “kopt” line on /boot/grub/menu.lst). Then, for the two or three reboot afterwards, keystrokes were still ignored, but then started to work again. I honestly ignore what did I do, but I activated all the repositories to get more recent software and updated, so…
- Can make compiz work on the gnome interface, but I wanted a Kubuntu. Kubuntu integration is, in fact, quite worse than standard gnome interface (not a big surprise, all in all).
- MadWifi drivers did make the card work, but I had to explicitely set the mode of operation as “shared”, and not “open”, by adding a line to the related /etc/network/interfaces entry:
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid XXXXXXXX
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
pre-up iwpriv ath0 authmode 2
- for some times Firefox never worked at first start (did not read keystrokes, nor open any home page); always had to close it and restart. Now it works fine - again, I’m using KDE and a more updated version of packages, so perhaps this is the reason.
Posted by mattia as compiz, firefox, kde, kubuntu, macbook, madwifi, ubuntu at 7:14 PM CEST
