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I recently took the crazy plunge of installing Fedora 8 on my new MacBook Air. It was an interesting experience given the utter absence of community documentation for running Linux on this brand new computer. I'm hoping to fill some of that void by offering some of my experiences here:

This article on the Mactel Linux website was the closest I could come to getting help on installing Fedora 8 on a MacBook Air:
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Fedora8OnMacBookSantaRosa

The Santa Rosa MacBook (MacBook 3,1) and the MacBook Air (MacBook Air 1,1) share many similarities. It turns out, however, that just enough things are different to cause several headaches.

After I upgraded to Fedora 8 on one of my Linux servers, I decided to install wine and try playing some Steam games from the Orange Box I purchased a few weeks ago. It took me a hell of a lot of searching, but I finally figured out how to solve an issue where none of the Steam games would launch. Steam installed fine, but when I tried to launch a game, it displayed the normal driver out of date message, then showed a loading dialog, which disappeared and did nothing else. When running wine from the command line, I could capture the following error:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x603dd520 at address 0x603dd520 (thread 005e), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x603dd520 in 32-bit code (0x603dd520).

There was a bunch of other error dump lines after this, but essentially it just didn't work. After scouring the Internet for a few days, I finally came upon the following forum discussion: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4509275.html