I have a MacBook4,1 (Apple --> About this Mac --> More Info...; look at the "Model Identifier" entry), and the relevent Ubuntu community document pages are:
How to install Ubuntu on a MacBook
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There are three parts:
- Installation: install Ubuntu.
- Hardward configuration: configure devices.
- Enable some neat software.
Installation
Software Update.
- Update Mac OS X.
Apple Menu -> Software Update...
- Update Firmware if needed. See the following webpage.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
- Download from http://refit.sourceforge.net.
- Mount the image.
- Double-click on the "rEFIt.mpkg" icon.
- Reboot to make sure rEFIt is installed.
Resize Hard Drive.
From the output of the
mount command, look for the disk mounted on /. In my case it is disk0s2. Change the following command accordingly.diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 50GReboot.
Install Ubuntu 8.04.1.
- Download and burn the Ubuntu CD image from www.ubuntu.com. (I used the 64 bit version because I have the Core 2 Duo Macbook.)
- Put it in your computer and reboot.
- Select the penguin from the rEFIt menu. (Or hold down C while booting.)
- Select "Check CD for defects". It takes a while, but is good to do.
- Reboot.
- Select the penguin from the rEFIt menu.
- Select "Start or install Ubuntu". The Ubuntu desktop will load.
- Click the Install icon.
- Follow the on-screen instructions. Some notes:
- Make sure to select the US English -- Macintosh keyboard layout.
- Choose to manually edit the partition table.
- Make sure that EFI GPT partition is not mounted.
- Create some partitions (I created: 10G for /; 10G for /scratch; 2G swap; the rest for /home).
- Also make sure that your partitions are mounted in the correct spots (/, /home,...).
- Make sure to select the US English -- Macintosh keyboard layout.
- Reboot.
- Select "Start Partitioning Tool" at the rEFIt menu. It might ask you to sync the MBR GPT maps. Select yes.
- Reboot.
- Select the Penguin at the rEFIt menu.
Hardware Configuration
Wireless (BROADCOM BCM4328)
You need to have a wired internet connect for this.
Install firmware:
apt-get update
aptitude install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE
mkdir driver
unzip -a R151517.EXE -d driver/
cd driver/DRIVER/
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapperecho ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
Add to /etc/modprobe.d/options:
options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3
Right click volume control icon.
Select the Switches tab.
Enable Speaker.
iSight
Reference: Ubuntu Forum Post.
Grab firmware from OSX partition.
sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdax /mnt
sudo cp /mnt/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/* /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)# Mactel PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ubuntu hardy mainapt-get update
apt-get install isight-firmware-tools
ift-extract -a /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/AppleUSBVideoSupport/etc/init.d/hal restartapt-get install cheese
cheeseAdd the following InputDevice section to
/etc/X11/sorg.conf.Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "MacBook Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.015"
Option "BottomEdge" "310"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "FingerLow" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "LeftEdge" "100"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.88"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "MaxTapTime" "150"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.79"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "RightEdge" "1120"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
Option "TapButton3" "2"
Option "TopEdge" "50"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "25"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true"
EndSectionAdd syndaemon to the startup programs (System --> Preferences --> Sessions).
syndaemon -i 2 -t -dIt works, the settings just need to be adjusted: open volume control, unmute Mic and Capture; and make sure that Mic is the Input Source.
Software Configuration
Power Consumption
Install powertop.
apt-get install powertopRun powertop, wait and implement suggestions.
powertop- Suggestion: turn bluetooth off.
hciconfig hci0 down ; rmmod hci_usb - Suggestion: increase the VM dirty writeback time from 5.00 to 15 seconds.
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs - Suggestion: Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom.
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom
Enable:
System --> Preferences --> Appearance --> Visual Effects --> Extraapt-get install compizconfig-settings-managerSystem --> Preferences --> Advanced Desktop Effects SettingsAmarok
apt-get install amarok k3b libk3b2-extracodecsNote: k3b and libk3b2-extracodecs are needed to enable disc burning
from Amarok
Google Gadgets
Add repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list.
## Google Gadgets
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy mainaptitude install google-gadgetsSystem --> Preferences --> Sessions --> Startup Programs --> Add
Name: Google Gadgets
Command: /usr/bin/ggl-gtk -bg
Comment: Google GadgetsLaTeX
aptitude install texlive-full vim-latexsuite subversion vim-gtk xpdf
Install software for compiling Sage:
aptitude apt-get install gcc-4.2-base make m4 bison flex tar perl binutils libstdc++6-dev g++ openssh-clientwget http://www.sagemath.org/src/sage-3.0.5.tar
tar cvf sage-3.0.5
cd sage-3.0.5
make
