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Colin Walters(walters@cis.ohio-state.edu)@Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:38:56PM -0400:
> Matthias Güter <m.grueter@gmx.net> writes:
>
> > i'm about to buy a new ibook (www.apple.com/ibook) and i'm not
> > planning to use neiter macos9 nor macosx. as a happy debian
> > gnu/linux user it is very important to me to know how well the ibook
> > works with the ppc distro (potato or woody). i'd like to know what
> > hardware components
>
> > ethernet
>
> I believe it's regular GMAC ethernet, so it should work.
It works well
>
> > audio
>
> I think this doesn't work at the moment.
Any info about the sound card is welcome ;-)
> > modem
>
> Should work.
I have tried it with minicom, and I can establish a dialog with it. So I
suspect it should work.
> > firewire
>
> I believe Linux kernel support for FireWire support is still in its
> growing stages. I don't think it supports Apple hardware yet.
I have no further infos...
> > usb
>
> Should work.
My mouse is working very well (3 buttons ok, the wheel is ok too)
> > airport
>
> Should work.
Not tried by me
> > tvout
>
> I'm not sure. If it's the Rage 128 chip, I think it will work too.
Don't know
Basically, I use my new ibook every day with a Debian sid. You need to get the
benh kernel (penguinppc.org/~benh) if you want the best result. With pmud the
sleep is working too...
Yves
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