Re: Debian and Powerbook Titanium
>I am a Debian user on several boxes. I have the opportunity to change my
>laptop (which is my main day to day box) from my Dell Inspiron 8000 to
>whatever I like (Yes I know that sometime I am a happy guy :-).
>
>I would like to evaluate the possibility to jump to an Apple Powerbook
G4 and
>thus would appreciate any advices on the validity of such a jump for a sid
>debian user.
>
>I would appreciate every pros and cons of such a jump (usability of devices,
>are every package available for x86 and powerpc, is XFree86 fully usable,
>usablity of Airport, etc.)
>
>Any links to such list will be greatly appreciate too.
The new model of titanium powerbook was just released by Apple, it
isn't as well supported as the older one yet, here's what you get with
my current rsync kernel (2.4.16-ben0)
- Display: framebuffer works well on LCD, no CRT output support yet
XFree requires compiling XFree CVS 4.1.99 top of tree for accel
to work. S-video out not supported yet. Fortunately, ATI provides
infos so things are beeing improved.
- Airport: works
- Ethernet: Works in 10/100, gigabit need some infos on the PHY chip
we don't (yet) have
- Sound: Works with a few problems (volume control is screwy, plus the
usual small dmasound endian problems, beeing worked on)
- Sleep: Doesn't work reliably yet, beeing worked on
- PCMCIA: not tested yet; should work
- Firewire: works
- USB: works
- Internal modem: doesn't work, and may never work in linux since
Apple had the brain dead idea of using a softmodem in this model
(except if you get conexant to release a linux/ppc driver).
- irda: might work, untested (the serial HW is the same as before,
however the IR transceiver might be different)
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