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  1. Bug #546393
  2. Comment #175

Comment 175 for bug 546393

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l3iggs (l3iggs) wrote :

This is a particularly nasty bug since basically all flavors of Linux on a large subset of Macbook Pros are unable to boot *out of the box* and require fiddling with kernel boot parameters in grub.cfg to allow the system to limp along until they can install the binary Nvidia drivers.

I have a MacBook Pro 5,1 which has two GPUs: GeForce 9600M GT and GeForce 9400M.

I was hoping this thing would be fixed by now and I attempted to boot the latest vivacious vixen (or whatever) nightly build ISO (with linux 3.18 rc5) to check if it was fixed. It's not.

Here is a kernel debug log I've collected when the nouveau module is loaded into linux v 3.18 rc5 on my system: http://hastebin.com/qusumotusi.m

Hopefully this will help one of you clever devils track down this bug and get a fix merged before the 3.18 merge window closes!