Re: Question about (older) TiBooks
On 25 Nov, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace:
> I was surfing the brazilian version of Ebay and found an
> (second-hand) older TiBook which is costing less than an
> iBook2, which seemed to me a good oportunity.
;-)
> Assuming that the hardware of this TiBook is working correctly
> (and that the person is only trying to sell it because he
> needs the money), would I encounter any problems with it
> running Linux? Are there any peripherals that are not
> supported (like sound or the DVD)?
I have a TiBook/400, and evrything works pretty well. As long as you use
recent software (2.4 kernels, XFree 4.1, mostly), evrything is
supported.
DVD playing is starting to be Altivec-accelerated, so works useably
well. Sound is supported in the 2.4 kernels, but there are still a few
quirks left with byte order with some applications.
FWIW, my TiBook works _lots_ better than a Dell Lattitude from work,
which constantly crashes on wakeup.
> BTW, talking about DVDs, I think that the DVDs of all
> computers available recently in the marked are RPC2 compliant,
> but how does it work in Linux? Are the Open Source players
> "agnostic" regarding the region coding system?
No Linux player has ever asked me any questions about region coding. But
since my DVD is flashed to be RPC-1, I'm not sure why that is so...
Cheers
Michel
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