According to Apple Mac OS X info this hardware is as follows: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) CPU: 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 RAM: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 GPU: Intel HD Graphics, 288 MB
The hardware *also* has NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M connected (according to OS X self-diagnostics) via 16x PCIe and it has 256 MB of RAM (Mac OS X cannot tell if this is dedicated RAM or part of system RAM like with integrated intel graphics). I believe that the OS X automaticaly switches between these GPUs according to system needs. I would guess that this is also tried by Jammy livecd and it hangs. I guess for this old hardware, automatically turning off the NVIDIA GPU and using just the Intel Graphics could be a good option if the switching is not stable. According to /proc/cpuinfo the Linux kernel successfully run the CPU up to 3.1 GHz so CPU frequency control did work absolutely fine. All the above tests were done with jammy nightly build from date 2021-11-05 obtained here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/daily- live/current/ and I did write the ISO image to USB memory stick using Ubuntu "Startup Disk Creator" software. I know that some newer MacBooks no longer support booting from USB memory simply by holding down ALT while booting the computer but for this hardware that still appears to work just fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950088 Title: jammy: noveau driver hangs for minutes when Firefox is started (live cd/usb, MacBookPro6,2) Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I tried to use nightly build of Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) on an old MacBook Pro and if I start with failsafe graphics everything seems to work really well. However, if I boot with default livecd configuration the GPU will hang when I try to launch Firefox. According to journalctl logs it appears that noveau driver or kernel DRM hangs for a long time and the computer appears totally frozen. I can still switch to terminal by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F3 and waiting a couple of minutes. Waiting for a long time (maybe 10 minutes) the system appears to work correctly again without rebooting the system. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-1build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-19.19-generic 5.13.14 Uname: Linux 5.13.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log' CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CasperVersion: 1.465 CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Nov 7 13:19:38 2021 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: jammy DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] [10de:0a29] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Apple Inc. GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] [106b:00c7] LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20211105) MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro6,2 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash --- SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/13/2019 dmi.bios.release: 0.1 dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.bios.version: 99.0.0.0.0 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag# dmi.board.name: Mac-F22586C8 dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.board.version: MacBookPro6,2 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22586C8 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvr99.0.0.0.0:bd06/13/2019:br0.1:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro6,2:pvr1.0:skuSystemSKU#:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22586C8:rvrMacBookPro6,2:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22586C8: dmi.product.family: MacBook Pro dmi.product.name: MacBookPro6,2 dmi.product.sku: System SKU# dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc. version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.107-8ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 21.2.2-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.13-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-2build1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200714-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-1build1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1950088/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
