[OT] MacBook triple booting!

I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I
have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

Congrats on the new expensive toy.

Too bad they don’t ship Conroe Core 2 Duo’s yet, or you’d be able to
cross x64 off the list as well.

Please record videos of yourself making use of the motion sensor! (
http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-6077081.html ) :slight_smile:

Sam Lantinga wrote:> I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I

have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment


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sorry for clogging up the newsgroups with pointless off topic, but…

sweet!On Saturday 03 June 2006 06:42, Sam Lantinga wrote:

I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I
have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

Hello !

I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I
have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

I am waiting then for a Maelstrom Univ. Binary :slight_smile:

If it is not already one.

CU

I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I
have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

I am waiting then for a Maelstrom Univ. Binary :slight_smile:

Heheh, that’s a good idea. I’m guessing it runs pretty fast under Rosetta though.

-Sam Lantinga, Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

Hello !

I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I
have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

I am waiting then for a Maelstrom Univ. Binary :slight_smile:

Heheh, that’s a good idea. I’m guessing it runs pretty fast under
Rosetta though.

Have fun when recompiling all the libs into Uni. ones.
This really needs some time. Is there a known solution so that
configure finds the libs like libPMG, libJPEG and so on ?

CU

A quick OT question, if you will! Does the Intel integrated graphics
inside the MacBook (64MB GMA950, IIRC) fare well under Linux? Is
direct rendered OpenGL available? Thanks.On 6/3/06, Sam Lantinga wrote:

I just got a fancy new toy… a MacBook for SDL development, and I
have it triple booting Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375

  • SR

A quick OT question, if you will! Does the Intel integrated graphics
inside the MacBook (64MB GMA950, IIRC) fare well under Linux? Is
direct rendered OpenGL available? Thanks.

It works…I used to have one in a Sony laptop, and it could play Quake
3 at really good speeds (and ut2004 at 2 fps…no vertex array range
last I tried). Intel’s graphics hardware isn’t very good, but their
Linux drivers were surprisingly robust.

I’ve similar reports about the MacBook.

The MacBook Pro uses an ATI chip…I assume it works, haven’t looked
around to find out.

–ryan.

The MacBook Pro uses an ATI chip…I assume it works, haven’t looked
around to find out.

Yep, installing the Ubuntu fglrx driver gives great hardware acceleration.

Anyway, on to the normal programming…

-Sam Lantinga, Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

Hello !

The MacBook Pro uses an ATI chip…I assume it works, haven’t looked
around to find out.

Yep, installing the Ubuntu fglrx driver gives great hardware
acceleration.

One last word to GFX drivers. I don’t know if
there are lots of Updates for the ATI driver on the
Windows Part.

Sometimes the Notebook Maker
only gives one driver out and then does not update
this driver anymore. But it is possible to mod the Ati
Catalyst Package and so you can always use the latest
Catalyst driver if you want. As the Mobility Chips
are basically the same as on the normal Desktop
Cards, they only have less pipelines and have
a slower takt to save energy.

The mod is easy
a programm just changes the driver names from
for example RADEON 9600 to Mobility RADEON 9600.

CU