Re: New iBook and Debian
Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:35:42AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +1200, James Tyson wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version
> > > to be exact.
> > > Are there any Gotcha's that I should know about with this box? What
> > > hardware is supported, and what's not, etc?
> [snip]
> > as for hardware support im not sure how 2.2.19 likes them, i think it
> > probably won't care for the video so you will need to add video=ofonly
> > at the yaboot prompt when you boot the CD. (potato r3 CDs should
> > boot).
>
> This is needed. Hopefully woody's boot-floppies will have the patch I put
> up so that video is detected properly.
I stand corrected.
> > ill let others comment on things such as kernel issues and X11.
>
> [...] potato's X works fine, iirc.
But it's sloooow...
> 4.0.x in woody worked great too and the 4.1.0 debs in testing work fine, w/
> a minor issue on scrolling (possibly in 4.0.x if you use the r128 driver
> instead of fbdev).
What issue? I'm not aware of any bugs related to scrolling.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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