Have you been to a geek conference lately and noticed the overwhelming number of MacBooks and MacBook Pros in the audience? When I presented at OSCON this last summer it was by far the most popular piece of hardware to be seen. Now I don’t want to get into a conversation about Apple or [...]
I’ve blogged in the past about setting up extended display on the MacBook (second gen), but I thought I’d update the post for Ubuntu 8.04. I notice there are some small differences, which are likely caused by the updates to Xorg. I’ll post my steps and my xorg.conf file below.
Extended Display on the MacBook
First, [...]
So I posted recently on how to get the camera working in Skype 2 Beta on the MacBook. One of the most common questions after that post was “But how do I get the microphone to work!?” So, I started toggling switches and trying stuff out until I could reproduce working microphone input. [...]
So I’m back with Ubuntu now after a week of testing the Fedora waters. Wow its nice to be back in the living of the “Just Works”! There were far too many things that didn’t work in Fedora.. too frustrating for me.
In any event, one of the first things that I tried setting [...]
Update: I wrote this quite a while ago and never posted it pending more testing. I figure it can be helpful in its current state to more users than just myself. So, in the spirit of release early, release often here are steps that I took for configuring extended display on my MacBook.
Based on the [...]
How many of you have played Neverball raise your hands? If you actually raised your hand you get a cookie. If you haven’t played Neverball and you have a Macbook you’re going to start playing because this tutorial makes it *so* much more fun! We can make use of the motion sensors [...]
In continued testing on my macbook it appears that I have suspend working solidly. If you enjoy this feature you may want to look into this tutorial. I have never really used suspend/hibernate much in the past because it has been buggy, but now that it appears to be working well I think [...]
With the new release of Ubuntu 7.10 I figured I should go back and revisit some of my macbook specific tutorials. Today I’ll touch on configuring / enabling wireless on the macbook (second-gen) in Ubuntu 7.10.
Enable Wireless on the Macbook
sudo aptitude install build-essential
wget -c http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-trunk-current.tar.gz
tar -zxf madwifi-trunk-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-*
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta
You should [...]
This tutorial has been a long time in the making and it isn’t completely done, but I wanted to release it for some suggestions, comments and cleanup. I set out to write a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for installing Ubuntu. It basically starts from taking the Macbook out of the box to configuring networking, [...]
Update : Improved instructions available on a more recent post here.
I have been using ndiswrapper for wireless support for some time now due to the Core 2 Duo Macbook series not working with the madwifi drivers. You may remember a previous tutorial I wrote on Configuring Wireless using ndiswrapper. That tutorial is all [...]
