Display unusable when installing on Late 2010 Macbook Air

[Jason R. Coombs]

I've attempted to install Maverick and the Daily Natty build (downloaded last night) on a late 2010 Macbook Air 13". When I boot Ubuntu from the CD, the video driver is not properly initialized and the screen is barely readable. I hope this can be resolved for a subsequent release.

[Jason R. Coombs (jaraco)]

I tried to attach a screenshot, but launchpad wouldn't take it. Posted here instead: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54081/linked/ubuntu%20on%20air%20video%20trouble.JPG

[Antonio Parrella (zidagar)]

You must run live cd with option "nomodeset" to bypass this problem. Try to follow the user guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir3-2/Meerkat

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #746174, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jason R. Coombs, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Natty reached EOL on October 2012.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, if possible, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful Bug Reporting Tips:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

[Jason R. Coombs (jaraco)]

I no longer have the hardware, so I'm unable to perform further testing. I have confidence the Macbook Air recipes would have worked. I don't see that I can close this ticket. Please close it for me as resolved or won't fix.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jason R. Coombs, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/740050/comments/5 regarding you no longer having the hardware. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.