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This page helps you to find the right documentation, when you want to install Ubuntu on a MacPro.
Determine your hardware revision
To determine which version / generation of MacPro you have, you have multiple options:
From the GUI in OS X
Click on the Apple on the top left > 'About this Mac' > 'More Info...' > 'Overview' > 'System Report ...' > 'Hardware' in left-hand panel > 'Hardware Overview' in right-hand panel > 'Model Identifier'. This will be a string like 'MacPro6,1'.
From the Terminal in Ubuntu
... under Ubuntu, you can find out what model you have by typing at the terminal:
A terminal is opened by going to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal.
It will tell you something like 'MacPro6,1' for example.
MacPro Hardware Models
Now go to the MactelSupportTeam's wiki and choose the link to your model in the list.
MacPro Hardware Revisions and Ubuntu version-specific wikis
Now choose the link to the wiki of your hardware revision and the Ubuntu version you are looking for. If you haven't decided yet, what version you like to install, it is recommended to install the latest official LTS Ubuntu version. If no wiki article is available, ask for help in the support forum!
* MacPro3,1:
* MacPro6,1:
Single Boot (Ubuntu as sole OS)
WARNING: The instructions below will erase OS X from your Mac Pro. Make a backup of your data and have a copy of the OS X installation media handy in case something goes wrong.
Required Software
Installing REFind
Installing Ubuntu
Fixing Grub
Fixing WiFi
If you want to use the WiFi that's built into the Mac Pro you will need to open Additional Drivers application and tell it to install the proprietary Broadcom Wireless driver.
Installation on a Macpro
It is strongly suggested to use the Ubuntu 64 bits version (AMD64) to benefit from the full installed memory. Using the 32 bits will limit the memory to less than 3 Gb. The normal installation has been working seemlessly for a MacPro3,1 with Hardy (8.04 LTS), Jaunty (9.04) and Karmic (9.10).
The regular 64-bit Ubuntu CDs have trouble booting on older Intel Macs, such as MacPro1,1, due to EFI incompatibilities. You must download a special +mac CD of Ubuntu to work-around this problem. For 11.04, you can get it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/release/
If you try to use a regular 64-bit Ubuntu CD on such systems, you may get the following blocking message while trying to boot off the CD:
WARNING: It is important to install the Grub boot loader on the Ubuntu partition (e.g. /dev/sda3), instead of the default disk root. This is done by selecting the Advanced options after partitioning and before the actual installation.
By default, Ubuntu installs the GRUB boot loader on the disk root (e.g. dev/sda). This does modify the EFI and GUID boot loader, which then potentially removes your Mac OSX boot.... You must specify a partition for GRUB installation, e.g. /dev/sda3
(works out-of-the-box)
(works, with remarks) (needs manual install) (won't work) (not yet documented) Quick Install Guide
Note: The best version of Ubuntu to use is 10.04.2, as 10.10 has issues with PulseAudio.
1. Get a wired USB keyboard and mouse to make the install easy. Before you install Ubuntu, if you have OSX running it is strongly advised that you use system updates to insure that your various firmwares are up to date (bluetooth,wifi,EFI). In particular your EFI firmware must be the latest version. See
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1237
2. When you power on hold down the left mouse button as soon as hearing the chime sound until the CD drive opens. Drop in Ubuntu 10.04.2 / 64bit / desktop edition. Reboot, and this time hold the 'c' key down after the chime sound to boot from the CD in the drive.
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3. Boot into the live CD at the option screen. Not the install option.
4. Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal. Then type
This will delete all your files and your operating system currently on your hard drive. Since we only want to wipe the first few hundred MB of data at the beginning of the drive wait 2 minutes, then press Ctrl-C. The output should show how much of the drive was 'zeroed' or wiped, which gives you an indication of the transfer speed of that drive BTW.
5. Go to System -> Administration -> gparted
Now, Device -> New Partition Table.
Select msdos partition and press OK. This gives the BIOS on the Mac Pro a partition table it can boot from. If you don't do this, your new install will not boot when complete.
6. Finally double click the install button on the desktop. Select manual partitioning when the option comes up during the install. Click free space -> Add -> select the filesystem type as reiser or ext4 (your preference, google it, reiser is better for most) and the mountpoint is '/' without the commas. Click OK and continue and ignore the message about no swap partition, most are better off without it.
7. Start by setting up your wifi / network connection (network manager icon top right). The next thing you should do is System -> Administration -> Update Manager and install all of the updates and then reboot. Next go to System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers and install all of the closed source drivers for graphics cards and such. It is best to install restricted drivers for network and wifi cards last of all. Reboot after this also. If you want the restricted video codecs so you can play all media go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic. Quick search for restricted. Right click ubuntu-restricted-extras and mark for installation. Click Apply on the top bar.
8. To enable the sound on the headphone jack on the back facing side of the machine Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal. Now type
and scroll to the end of the file and add the line:
Save and reboot. From here on the Mac Pro will run like any other Ubuntu install. Done.
Keyboard
Beware to specify the Macintosh keyboard layout during installation. Using the Mac Aluminium keyboard may cause troubles. If you ever switch to NumLock and your keyboard goes crazy press the F6 key for 1-2 secs. Multimedia keys (F7-F12 for basck/forward/volume control) and Eject keys work out of the box.
Video
By default, the Vesa driver will be installed from the Ubuntu CD. This works OK. However, if you wish to speed-up display efficiency, and access 3D acceleration for e.g. OpenGL and Compiz, you should install the ad-hoc video driver.
The MacPro3,1 ATI card is an ATI XT2600HD. There are lots of artifacts. Using ATI drivers. During boot, the splash screen has a bunch of white flickering pixels.
Usually, the menu System/Administration/Hardware drivers should do well in most cases. Alternatively, you may try to install the required drivers using EnvyNG, which comes as a set of packages in the universe repositories: envyng-core, envyng-qt, envyng-gtk.
WARNING: on Karmic, the ATI driver installation crashes the machine ; this can only be fixed by removing the radeon drivers, and returning to the default vesa driver. In a few words, avoid installing the proprietary drivers for the ATI card under Karmic. The only way to install the driver is to use EnvyNG.
The nvidia v180 drivers installed and worked fine for X, but the console will be flaky unless you build 'vesafb' into the kernel and use a boot option that provides 1024x768 resolution
Bluetooth
The Apple bluetooth module in the Mac Pro works without issue under Ubuntu 10.04. However at boot the following error message is displayed and logged since the module connects to the USB bus.
kernel 2.6.32-24-generic : [ 5.522591] hub 5-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
Sound
For the HDA Realtek ALC885/intel sound, the default installation does not enable sound output. An easy solution is to edit:
and add at the end:
This is the only option that works. Other model=macpro is not effective. Currently Only the back sound output port is working properly. The front audio port does not output at full volume. Better than nothing .
Ethernet
A few ethernet issues have been reported (see below). Beware there are 2 ethernet plugs.
WifiWifi Automatic installation
The Wifi card is a BCM 4328. It is usually well detected from the Administration/Hardware Drivers which should see a Broadcom STA wireless driver.
It seems the SSB module may require to be unactivated in some cases, e.g. with
then add wl at the end of file /etc/modules
Wifi Manual installation from Broadcom
Manual install can be done using Broadcom proprietary drivers and following the README.
Wifi Manual installation using 'Ndiswrapper'
Alternative is to use NdisWrapper
then add ndiswrapper at the end of /etc/modules
Create file /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper with content:
Make it executable and start it as a boot process service with
Multiple Hard Disks
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnIntelMacPro#line-187
Other
Further and related information:
Forum Postings
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=553587
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=842100
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This is to update my progress in getting a stable Ubuntu Jaunty amd_64 desktop on a dual processor, nehalem based MacPro(20091.1):
INSTALLATION: 1) I installed on a second drive using the Jaunty (9.x) amd64 desktop CD. My drive had an EFI boot partition and a small (40GB) OSX partition. I created a large ext3 partition sdb3 and a small swap partition sdb4. I installed the boot loader on the ext partition in the 'advanced' section of the partitioning section of the installation routine.
2) Installation was successful but upon rebooting there was a 'no operating system' message when i tried to boot ubuntu. I rebooted the installation CD, selected the 'run ubuntu with no changes' option. I then:
root (hd2,0)
setup (hd2,0)
3) the ethernet adapters in this machine have no drivers in kernel version less than 2.6.30. [for my initial installation i used a wired USB network adapter (Trendnet TU2-ET100) which worked effortlessly using boot discs from ubuntu 8.1x and 9.x
4) using that adapter i installed the packages required to build an ubuntu kernel. and used the ubuntu sources 2.6.28.11. the ubuntu config-2.6.28.11 worked without modification after patching the ethernet drivers. the patch for the pre 2.6.30 e1000e driver is available at http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/3/25/5235664s, but here it is:
Add device ID for a new variant of the 82574 adapter.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <[email protected]> Acked-by: John Ronciak <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> ---
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h b/drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h index 11a2f20..d8b8229 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ enum e1e_registers {
+#define E1000_DEV_ID_82574LA 0x10F6
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c index f388a01..15424ba 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c @@ -5130,6 +5130,7 @@ static struct pci_device_id e1000_pci_tbl[] = {
+ { PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82574LA), board_82574 },
the ubuntu kernel config-2.6.28.11-generic provided working ethernet after patching the e1000e drivers. (there is a kernel config that can be used as a starting point at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnIntelMacPro but will require lots of modification to get it working properly on the 2009.1 model MacPro)
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The next version of the world’s preeminent Linux distro, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, is almost upon us. Late last night, the final beta of 14.04 Trusty Tahr (an African wild goat) was released, with the final build due on April 17. Trusty Tahr is the first long-term support (LTS) build of Ubuntu in two years, and is thus contains a lot of exciting features that thousands (millions?) of Ubuntu 12.04 users can’t wait to get their hands on.
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Because Trusty is an LTS, most of the changes are fairly conservative in nature. Unity 7 is still there. Mir, the new graphics stack being developed by Canonical that is due to eventually replace the X Window System, is still a long way off. Despite Canonical’s Shuttleworth saying that Ubuntu 14.04 would include the Touch/Mobile, it appears they won’t make it into the final build. (Canonical has revised its estimate for the first Ubuntu smartphones to the third quarter of 2014, so there’s still a little time to polish things up.) For the big changes, you’ll be waiting for Ubuntu 14.10 (or likely even later for Mir). (Read: Ubuntu: Wake up and smell the Unity against you.)
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Look at those beautiful borderless windows and rounded corners!
So, what is new in Ubuntu 14.04? There is finally the option for locally integrated menus (LIM) in an app’s title bar, instead of forcing the app’s menu to appear at the top of the screen (enable it in the new Unity Control Center). There’s a new Unity lock screen. You now have the option of minimizing apps from the launcher (and launcher icons can be made much smaller, too). Windows are now completely borderless, rather than bounded by a one-pixel black line. The shift from Compiz to GTK3 means window corners are now antialiased — oh, and resizing windows in Ubuntu 14.04 now occurs in real time.
Moving down the list of importance: Ubuntu 14.04 also improves support for high-resolution displays, TRIM is enabled by default for Intel and Samsung SSDs, Nvidia Optimus support is improved, and you can pump the system volume up above 100%. All of the default applications have been updated to their latest stable versions (Firefox 28, LibreOffice 4.2.3, Nautilus 3.10.1, etc.), and it rocks Linux kernel 3.13.
This video from WepUpd8 shows most of Ubuntu 14.04’s new features, but be sure to turn your sound down before pressing play.
Overall, Ubuntu 14.04 is a surprisingly pleasant operating system. It feels very polished, especially for a Linux distro. If you’ve been using 12.04 for the last couple of years, 14.04 will feel like a sizable step up. The question, though, is whether Canonical should even be putting much time into desktop builds of Ubuntu — the desktop PC is undoubtedly on its way out, and I’m not entirely sure what role Canonical can play on other form factors. It might be able to gain some traction on TVs, but I’m fairly certain that mobile has already been sewn up tight by Android (also a Linux distro) and iOS. (I’m looking at you too, Firefox OS.)
Download Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. For the first time, every flavor of Ubuntu 14.04 (Desktop, Server, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.) has been approved for LTS status, meaning they’ll all be supported for a minimum of three years, and some of them will be supported for five.
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