I have a 2008 Unibody Macbook Pro that I have installed EndeavourOS(Arch based distro), which I tried to install nvidia drivers on and when I did the screen colors became inverted. This model has two nvidia gpus one being a GeForce 9400M and the other is a GeForce 9600M GT. the driver used was nvidia-340xx installed from the AUR. I understand that this driver is no longer supported, but stupidly decided to install it figuring it would help the system better utilize the weird dual gpus these C2D Macs had. If anyone has any idea on how to revert the screen back to displaying normal colors after the fact that would be great. Also, while most of the screen is inverted some things such as terminal windows and parts of other application windows are the correct color so I can't do a simple invert at all.
2008 Unibody MacBook Pro Linux gpu issues
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I found this thread on the arch forum with a guy having similar issues with the nvidia driver and 08 mbp. Doesn't look like he perfectly fixed his issues either as he solved for one issue, additional problems/instability popped up but per that thread, the proprietary nvida driver *should* work ok with a sufficiently old kernel and xorg. Im not familiar with arch but found these instructions on the EndeavorOS page for removing bad drivers -using pacman [ sudo pacman -Rns <package-name> ] to remove the proprietary driver and then [ sudo nvidia-inst --nouveau ] to install nouvea drivers.
If you are not sold on arch, I have been running MX linux 23 Libretto on a 2008 unibody MB and 2009 unibody MBP without issue. MX has run perfectly for me actually out of the gate without any issues (sound, acceleration, wifi, camera etc. all worked). If I didn’t know better, my experience was so easy and seamless it almost seems like MX was tailor built for this gen Intel Mac. Anyways, good luck!
If you are not sold on arch, I have been running MX linux 23 Libretto on a 2008 unibody MB and 2009 unibody MBP without issue. MX has run perfectly for me actually out of the gate without any issues (sound, acceleration, wifi, camera etc. all worked). If I didn’t know better, my experience was so easy and seamless it almost seems like MX was tailor built for this gen Intel Mac. Anyways, good luck!
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