How well Ubuntu (Feisty) works on a MacBook Pro

[Mark Roach]

I got iSight, wireless, and video acceleration working, and used some tool I
saw online (prob from one of the many blog posts you mentioned) to get
right-click simulation. I can confirm that the touchpad is annoyingly
sensitive. Pretty much everything requires work and new versions of kernel
modules. Don't expect a good out of the box experience.

On 4/15/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> Dear list
>
> I have been using Feisty for the last couple of months on my macbook
> pro, but inside Parallels (virtualisation technology). I am starting to
> get fed up with the crippled performance, and since I spend 99% of my
> time inside the virtual machine I am considering installing Feisty
> natively on the mac.
>
> There are many inconsistent blogs, bugs and howtos scattered around the
> Web. I have read most of them, but due to some inconsistency I can't be
> sure what to expect. Not forgetting that they are mostly old, and I'm
> hoping recent advances in Linux would render them inaccurate.
>
> Some of the problems I have discovered are: loss of sound on internal
> speakers; crackly sound with speakers plugged in; too low a fan speed
> (overheating); EFI making life tricky; unable to use apple remote;
> unable to use iCam; keyboard backlight doesn't work; monitor brightness
> adjust keys don't work; very poor battery performance (due to bad power
> management); no way to emulate a right mouse button;
> two-finger-scrolling doesn't work; and probably others that I've
> forgotten.
>
> If any one on the list has ubuntu running natively on a macbook pro, or
> knows someone who has, I'd be very grateful for any feedback. Especially
> with regards to how well it will work 'out of the box', what won't work,
> what needs to be done to get things working, and overall impressions.
>
> Best regards
>
> Gabe
>
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