Comments on: Installing Fedora 10 on a MacBook

By: .Hijrah dari Ubuntu ke Fedora « BANDITHIJO

.Hijrah dari Ubuntu ke Fedora « BANDITHIJO — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:37:18 +0000

[...] dan juga mulai mehijrahkan machine gw dari ubuntu ke fedora. Mencari2 link yang tepat untuk machine (MacBook 4.1) gw tapi belum memiliki CD/DVD installer yang tepat nih. Udah download tapi ternyata g cocok sama machine. Berikut link tutorialnya from Cenolan.com [...]

By: .ingin hijrah dari ubuntu ke fedora « BANDITHIJO

.ingin hijrah dari ubuntu ke fedora « BANDITHIJO — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:18:57 +0000

[...] dan juga mulai mehijrahkan machine gw dari ubuntu ke fedora. Mencari2 link yang tepat untuk machine ku tapi belum memiliki CD/DVD intaller yang tepat nih. Udah download tapi ternyata g cocok sama machine. Berikut link tutorialnya from Cenolan.com [...]

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:16:28 +0000

Thank you so much for these well written instructions. I'm just running some issues connecting to the internet. (I tri boot my macbook 2.1, with fedora 10 installed) I followed the instructions on fixing the wireless. The upgrades were completed. However, everytime I try to connect to a server it won't connect, and a message saying that "the server is disconnected"- when it is not. I can also see a list of servers, and the strength of signals. I did yum update again; but still failed to connect wireless. I also went into Network Manager to make it connect automatically - but i still can't connect to the server. I'm simply trying to connect to my home router- there is no password (and i think) no firewall activated... so the connection should be easy but its' not. I also try to connect to my university's server- which fail too! :( Anyone has any tips?? Thanks for the help.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:48:14 +0000

Hi, i'm a newbie in fedora.. (by far) this is the best well written website i've found on installing fedora in macbook. :)
I like to know if there is an easy (And secure) way to share files between the 2 os's. I like to keep my files in os x (tiger), but be able to access them from fedora for read/write. Thanks for the helps!

By: Frankly3D

Frankly3D — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:55:04 +0000

What if you just want Fedora, no OSX?

By: MrMiNd1989

MrMiNd1989 — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:21:37 +0000

@Chris. Yes I just discover it. And using terminal to open it it says there is an error with the settings and it can't save them

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:19:23 +0000

@MrMiNd1989

Glad it works. I actually found that although the test works fine in gstreamer-properties and the settings are seemingly saved (they appear in gconf editor), the settings don't actually get picked up by any apps that use gstreamer and even when you open gstreamer-properties again they have reset back to default. Annoying!

By: MrMiNd1989

MrMiNd1989 — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:10:08 +0000

@Chris. It works! Great! Thank you very much for your help!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:00:33 +0000

@MrMiNd1989. I have the exact same problem on the MacBook 4,1. I found the solution on the ubuntu wiki: Green Capture Issue (Observed on Macbook 2,1 and Macbook 4,1) If testing the video input through gstreamer-properties results in a green-tinted image, try setting Default Input to 'Custom' and in the Pipepline box, enter the following: v4l2src device="/dev/video0" ! videoscale Click on Test to see if these new settings correct the issue. There is a bug report for this problem here. This fixes it for me.

By: MrMiNd1989

MrMiNd1989 — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:19:19 +0000

Hi, I have a MacBook 2,1 and a problem with the iSight. The dark areas are green. If I turn off the lights it all become green! I tried both the firmware linked in the post and the one I took from my OSX partition.
Any solution?

By: Tiesel

Tiesel — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:56:38 +0000

Hi,
I first blew away Leopard with a fresh F10 x86_64 installation, that doesn't want to boot.
So: Is there any way to get around a re-installation of leopard and rEFIt ?

Thanks,
Tiesel

By: pipen

pipen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:49:54 +0000

After some further research I dont think the problem is Xfce related, however i am sitll unable to get the synaptics driver enabled and i have no idea why...

i am going to configure it with xorg.conf while i find another solution

By: pipen

pipen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:52:53 +0000

Hey, thanks for the instructions... I have a slight problem with the touchpad....
I'm not running GNOME, instead i am using Xfce 4 and apparently the problem seems related to Xfce not fully supporting HAL...

Do you have any ideas about that?

By: Wie jetzt, Leberwurst? » Blog Archive » Linuxify your MacBook…

Wie jetzt, Leberwurst? » Blog Archive » Linuxify your MacBook… — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:12:54 +0000

[...] steht dem auch nichts im Weg. Wer für Fedora 10 und das MacBook (4.1 Penryn) eine Anleitung sucht, hier findet er sie, und bei mir funktionierte sie auch tadellos. Seit der Installation hab ich allerdings auch das Mac [...]

By: Pavan

Pavan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:56 +0000

Thanks for the instructions, I was worried about heating issues though. Does
the laptop get hot while running Linux than Leopard/Tiger even if CPU scaling
is enabled?

By: suvi

suvi — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:18:07 +0000

Hey. Don't forgett to supersize your fedora! With this easy adjustable skript:
http://www.suvi.org/theory/linux_fedora_supersize...
You get all the stuff you want, like MP3-Support, Movieplayer, FTP-Client, good working 3D Driver. So you can have your eye-candi as well. Cheers Suvi.

By: brewster

brewster — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:47:44 +0000

@UncleBob:

"Thank you very much!"

Well, the hole Linux Kernel and Terminal-THING is pretty new for me but we have to keep going on in the development of our OPEN SOURCE SOCIETY...
TUX will save this planet :-).

By: UncleBob

UncleBob — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:46:50 +0000

Download either of these (i386 or x64_86, whatever you're running):

ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/Packages/xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.i386.rpm
ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/9/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.x86_64.rpm

then: sudo rpm -Uvh --force xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9.xxx.rpm

to stop auto updates from wanting to upgrade this driver, add this line to /etc/yum.conf:
exclude=xorg-x11-drv-i810

done.

By: brewster

brewster — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:29:02 +0000

@Uncle Bob or Cenolan,

how can I downgrade the above mentioned driver. Wwich commannd do I have to use? It would be very usefull if I get an answer (newbie)....

regards dan

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:50:09 +0000

Thank you very much for this installation guide!
I`ll use Fedora as my first Open Source OS...

kind regards from Germany