Re: Icebooks
> On Thursday 26 July 2001 12:34, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Before I go and do something stupid, does any one have any particular
> > (dis)recommendations about using the newer iBooks with Debian? Looking
> > at the spec and grovelling around on the web it seems they do reasonably
> > well.
>
> Its a bit more work, and sound and the modem don't work as they are dependant
> on I2C bus....what that means I am not all that sure. this is my first mac.
> There are people working on it. Hopefull soon sound at least will be a
> reality. Everything else is really amazing. Decent performance....incredible
> battery life. Usb, cdrom,dvd,cdr,airport,10/100,Xfree 4.1 acceleration of
> video card all are workign well. If you are not new to Linux then I whole
> heartedly endorse the new iBooks. If you are new......it could pose a very
> steep learning curve.
My modem appears to work fine under Linux.
Also, I am testking Jack's alpha sound drivers, and it seems to work
reasonably just now. Ofcourse, no mixers or anything flash like that at
this stage, but it's a start.
Cheers.
James Tyson ---
Samizdat New Media Solutions
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