Ubuntu 13.10 installation on iMac 21,5 inch radeon 4670 black screen
Dear Ubuntu community, I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on iMac 21,5 inch mid 2010 with radeon 4670... I am Linux user for more than 12 years...but this is first time i am willing to install it on my iMac...
View Article[xubuntu] iMac 2008 boot issue
I 'inherited' a 2008 iMac from my wife recently after she upgraded her desktop machine. I hated OSX, so I've wiped the drive and installed Xubuntu 13.10. This is the hardware info: 24" iMac, 2.8GHz...
View Article[PPC] Fixing sound in 14.04
I have sound working on my iBook (late 2004 12") using snd-aoa. Previously this used snd-powermac. I want top submit a patch so this will work out-of-the-box. For this I need the help of other users of...
View ArticleUnable to boot osx after dual booting Ubuntu.
Hi I tried dual booting Ubuntu using bootcamp(partitioning) using a USB. I was able to get Ubuntu running but when I tried to switch back to my osx it gave me a black screen. When I restart my laptop I...
View Article[ubuntu] 12.04 iBook g4 External Monitor Problems
Hello Ubuntu Community! Excuse me for Being a linux noob. I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 on My PPC Ibook G4 and about 1/4 away into the installation, the external monitor shuts off and doesnt come...
View Article[SOLVED] Installing Ubuntu from USB on a MacBook Air 3,1-3,2 (nvidia card)
The official documentation for MacBook Air installs has no page for Pagolin (12.04) or Saucy (13.10) on a MacBook Air 3,2. Its page for Raring (13.04) is useful but doesn't cover the EFI problem that...
View Article[ubuntu_studio] Installing Ubuntu Studio on a IMac
I want to install Ubuntu Studio as my sole operating system on my Imac. My question is will it be as easy to install on a mac as it is on a pc? It's an early 2006 Imac 4,1 with an intel processor.
View Article[Ubuntu] installation on 11.2
I am new to Ubuntu, but I decided to install it on my newly gained Macbook Pro 11.2. I have four issues: In live mode, the screen crushed, I can hardly see clearly unless I plug in an external LCD.In...
View Article[ubuntu] How To: Burn DMG to DVD-DL natively on Ubuntu
I needed to burn a DMG to a DVD-DL disc without having access to a working Apple computer. Over the process of trial and error and found this to work pretty well. Required Items dmg2img-1.6.5DMG...
View Article[lubuntu] Lubuntu or Xubuntu on iBook G4? And trouble with touchpad
Hello. I'm new here and to Linux; I hope I've chosen the right forum. A couple of days ago, Google decided that with OS X 10.4.11 (iBook G4 PPC), not being able to update Firefox or run Chrome, I might...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu Battery Life?
Hey guys, I am sure I am not the only one having this problem....Unfortunately, I feel like this is more "as designed" than a "bug" or something I can fix. Basically, I have a triple booted laptop...
View Article[ubuntu] Installing Ubuntu to an External Hard Drive to run on Mac 2008
iMac (7,1) mid-2007 running Maverick 10.9.2 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme x7900 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM ATI RADEON 2600 Pro with 256MB of GDDR3 memory *According to something you can run in terminal,...
View ArticleDual boot annoyance
Greetings, I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 and OS X Mavericks in dual boot mode. I'm running in EFI mode, booting straight to grub as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro11-1/Saucy...
View ArticleRun Ubuntu on imac from USB
Hello, I hope my question will not overlap with any existing ones. I would like to run Ubuntu on my mac from an usb drive. The point is that I want to have already Ubuntu installed on the usb and just...
View ArticleHow I remove grub-efi and install grub-pc
I'm unable to boot into Ubuntu. It always gets stuck on a blank purple screen. I've tried many different solutions, but nothing has worked. After some research I've come to the conclusion that I need...
View ArticleSnow Leopard dualboot Ubuntu 12.04 (grub and rEFInd)
Hello, After installed rEFInd I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macbook 4-1 which runs Snow Leopard 10.6. Now on startup I have GRUB instead of rEFInd and even if it shows Mac OS X, an error outcome...
View Article[PPC] Partitioning with Lubuntu
I have a 160 (149 usable) GB hard disk. I already installed OS X 10.4.11 on 119 GB and left about 29 GB of free space for Lubuntu. I noticed in the automatic installation of Lubuntu (Lubuntu alongside...
View ArticleMBPro seem to run warmer with LM16/raring?
Folks: I and others seemed to have noticed an issue with LM16/raring running much warmer than when compared to LM15 or of course OSX; OSX runs the computer much cooler. LM is essentially ubuntu raring,...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu 13.10 on iMac 11.3 (Side by side with OSX 10.8.5)
Hi all, This is somewhat frustrating as I have been using Ubuntu since version 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on all the computers I have had. Previously I had installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my iMac 11.3 in a dual...
View Article[ubuntu] install ubuntu on a mac in dual boot
Hello I try to install ubuntu on my MAC book pro. I have a Mac book 9,2 (mid 2012) and try to install ubuntu 12.04.4 I installed reflt and created a 50 GO partition formated in hsf+ I passed...
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