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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    Thank you osprey. I checked for the firmware-and-graphics and it is installed, as well as, xserver-xorg-video-intel. Here is the printout from the other codes you recommended: root@:~# dpkg -l | grep -i intel ii firmware-iwlwifi 20230210-5 all...
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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    Hello again. I thought I would update you with my current attempts. Since this is just a test/practice computer, I installed Bookworm after trying a few other recommendations which didn't work. After installing, I only had ethernet but remedied it with the installer recommended for the...
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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    Hello and thank you for your response. firmware-misc-nonfree is already updated to the latest version. On boot without nomodset, the computer stalls at loading initial RAM disk. If i boot in recovery mode, it stalls at : [2.568917] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA [2.568925]...
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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    Thanks again! I’ll give it a try. Appreciate your help.
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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    I did install the recommended firmware and graphics but it came back as everything being up to date and nothing new installed. I did find in the synaptic package manager that there is a package in kernel and models (non free) firmware for Samsung. Not sure if that has anything to do with it...
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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    Thanks so much! I will give it a try and report back.
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    Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

    Hello. I'm new to Linux and was finally able to get Debian installed on an old Macbook Pro 15" 2011. I received it used and had the motherboard switched out because of the failing gpu. I also have a new hard disc installed. It never booted up OS at all but I was able to get Linux installed...
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