Hi, I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,2), one with two graphics chips in it (intel and radeon). Installation went absolutely fine (using EFI and grub-efi). However, when it comes to booting it, it's a world of pain.
By default, it gets confused trying to enable the radeon, and shuts the display off entirely, which does not result in a very usable system. http://dentifrice.poivron.org/laptops/macbookpro8,2/ details some of the nastiness, but given that this is bit old, is it still necessary to rebuild stuff to get a working system? Some pages gave instructions for physically disabling one of the chips with grub using outb commands. This allowed boot with efifb only, but then X refused to start. Also tried building a 3.8 kernel, which apparently fixes KMS issues, but still no joy--probably not using exactly the right options here. If anyone has got this working, using either the intel or radeon driver (I'll settle for anything which gives a usable display!) I'd be very grateful for any advice here. Thanks all, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130406111944.gu23...@codelibre.net
