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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/01/2014 07:18 AM, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu Mactel team members,
>
> We have created a [1]team at Debian with the same goal as yours,
> although it does seem that we have much less man-power than you do. The
> primary purpose of this mail is to introduce ourselves.
>
> Ideally, I would like to incorporate all the nice work that you do into
> Debian.
>
> I have a specific question for you: I am trying to package everything
> necessary to configure macbooks with hybrid graphics to boot in EFI
> mode. Do you have any experience with this? I personally [2]succeeded
> rather well, but in a very hacky manner which cannot be packaged as
> such. Did you manage it better in Ubuntu?
>
>   [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mactel/
>   [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741438
>
> Kind regards, Thibaut.
>
>
>
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Hi Thibaut,

I personally have not had success using Grub and EFI... I actually had 
to use rEFInd from MacOSX in order to get to Ubuntu.  But, my machine is 
older, and does not have hybrid graphics, only nvidia.

I would really like to figure out how to use Grub2 as the main boot 
mechanism... but I would also like to use the nouveau drivers and still 
suspend/resume.  :)
I have a 3,1 Macbook so if you would like me to test something on it I 
would be glad to help if you need.
I would also like to circumvent using rEFInd and use only Grub2-efi if 
possible