Re: Anybody with Debian on an iBook2.2?
Hi Viktor,
Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently bought an iBook with a 700MHz G3 and installed Debian
> unstable on since that's what I've been using for a long time. I don't
> have so many questions regarding Debian specifically, but rather Linux
> on the iBook, and since it's hard to find people on the net with the
> same setup I might as well ask here.
>
I own an Apple Powerbook (the so called Pismo Edition, with an 400 MHz
G3, Firewire and a DVD drive). I'm running the actual testing
distribution on that machine.
> E.g., playing DVDs in mplayer. It simply doesn't work. The sound is
> okay, but the video runs only at half the speed. Eventually, it just
I tired to compile my own kernel, but I wasn't able to get sound
working. I didn't try playing DVDs.
Do you use a selfmade kernel? Can you send my your kernel config?
> stops. Now, mplayer prints out that my hardware is too slow, but that
> doesn't really make sense, since the processor and the grafics card
> should be fast enough. Besides, I can play DVDs under OSX just fine.
>
I'm still stuck on MacOS-9.2, but I neither have any problems in
playing DVDs (and my processor is only running at 400 MHz, which is
nearly the half of yours ;-).
Bye
Jan
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