UBUNTU 11.10 IN MACBOOK PRO

After that, we google it to find more information, here summary of Install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot in MacBook Pro.

Unlike Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot recognize almost all hardware of MacBook Pro and some of them works out of the box without any setting such us : VGA Intel HD, Multitouch Trackpad, FacetimeHD Camera, Sound, CardReader, Monitor brightness and Keyboard Bakclight. When I was looking for any reference on the net some errors that we encountered among others Bluetooth and MacBook Pro Wireless. Here some required setting to install Ubuntu 11.10 in Macbook Pro

Instal Ubuntu 11.10 MacBook Pro
before it's start, you should read my previous article here, step by step to install Ubuntu 11.10 on MacBook Pro was actually same as there, some things you need to change is the ISO, change the ISO with Ubuntu 11.10 for MAC (64-bit), download through following address :

Download Ubuntu 11.10 ISO for Mac 64bit

Fix Setting MacBook Wireless 
Some of MacBook Pro Series having a trouble in wireless, there are two option regarding this problem. you can use third party application/driver emulator like ndiswrapper or do patching the kernel, but we suggest you to do the last option that is patching the kernel, because people having trouble like system suddently freeze, and over heating when use ndiwswrapper. Read my following article to fix Broadcom BCM4331 Problem (use in MacBook Pro 8.1).

Setting MacBook Pro Wireless

Fix Setting MacBook Bluetooth
Some MacBook Pro having problem with the Bluetooth (ex:MacBook Pro 6.0) but not all, If you experience this install btusb-dkms from MacTel PPA, do as following :

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mactel-support && sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install btusb-dkms

Note: some people having trouble with Bluetooth in Ubuntu 11.10 (not only MacBook), as we mention today, there is update for Bluetooth tools and daemons, Bluetooth ALSA daemons, and Bluetooth printerdriver for CUPS. So  update immediately after finish installing Ubuntu 11.10.

Fix Setting Mouse and Touchpad
Your MultiTouch and trackpad is works, right ? to get more setting of them go to System Settings > Mouse and Touchpad. See the image bellow.

Ubuntu 11.10 setting multitouch setting for MacBook Pro

Some additional application which help you to configure multitouch is Touchégg, Touchégg is a multitouch gesture recognizer for GNU/Linux that allows associating actions to each gesture.

Touchégg GUI Interface

Touchégg is available in both 32bit and 64bit as deb, download and install Touchégg as following

• wget http://touchegg.googlecode.com/files/touchegg_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb
• wget http://touchegg.googlecode.com/files/touchegg-gui_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb
• sudo dpkg -i touchegg_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i touchegg-gui_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb

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Fix for Touchpad Trouble in Ubuntu 11.10

One of the issues introduced by Ubuntu 11.10 on my Eee PC 901 is touchpad dragging. The tap-and-drag gesture, for moving the cursor with the mouse button depressed, is too sensitive. I have to tap as fast I can to activate the gesture every time.

Today I pursued the bug report for this issue to find a fix. It didn’t take long to find a workaround using synclient, which is a utility for manipulating options for Synapticstouchpads. Run this command to get the timeout before a tap is interpreted as a single tap:
synclient | grep "SingleTapTimeout"

On my system this option was set to 180, which is too fast. Run this command to double the timeout to 360:
synclient SingleTapTimeout=360

At this point, tap-and-drag should be much easier like in Ubuntu 11.04. But for me, it highlighted a second problem: there was a slight delay before any regular tap would register on the screen. This was very visible in the file browser, where there was a visible delay between tapping a file and that file becoming selected.

Enabling the “FastTaps” option fixes the delay issue:
synclient FastTaps=1

Now on top of touchpad dragging being fixed, the whole system feels more responsive! I hope that I haven’t been using Ubuntu on this netbook with FastTaps disabled all these years. All of the synclient options are documented in the synaptics manpage.

Changes made by synclient are not persistent across reboots. The proper way to set these options would be using Xorg configuration files. For now, I’ve just added the twosynclient commands to Startup Applications to run automatically when I log in.

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