13" MacBook Pro (7,1)

I have a 13“ MacBook Pro (7,1). You can find out which MacBook you have by running the following command under Ubuntu.

sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

Ubuntu Documentation

If you have the MacBook Pro 7,1 you'll also want to look at the official Ubuntu documentation for the Macbook pro.

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This MacBook has an nVidia GeForce 320M GPU. You can install the latest version of the nVidia driver under Ubunto 11.10 Oneiric using the following commands.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

This adds the ubuntu-x-swap PPA and installs the newest version from there.

Note: I also installed the NVIDIA drivers from the binary package provided by NVIDIA directly. They work about the same and didn't solve dual monitor resolution problems that I have (with some displays in conference rooms, for example).

I cannot boot kernels after 3.0.13 using this method. ActionParsnip on the #ubuntu IRC channel suggested that I uninstall nvidia-current and remove this unsupported PPA. Then boot the new kernel and install the supported one. I may try that and then reinstall everything if it doesn't work. It's probably time for a clean install anyway.

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13" MacBook Pro (7,1)

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