On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 14:26, Frederic Gobin wrote: > It works !!! > I copied the contents of the install/powerpc-dir to my mac partition, > changed the yaboot.conf and boot it from OF ... > > The only that doesn't work is the key to eject CDs ... ikeyd rocks for this. I mention this in my recent O'ReillyNet article on Debian and iBooks <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/29/ibook_linux.html> -- I also owe the debian-powerpc mailing list a debt of thanks for information I found here that helped me with installing Debian on my iBook. The article seemed to go down well (two of my friends are buying iBooks as a result :) so hopefully we'll see even more people running Debian on them. There are some things I identified that I'd love neater solutions to: * wireless networking -- under PCMCIA you can make schemes so you can easily switch been home and work. I found no easy way of doing this yet with the airport card. Has anybody written anything for handling this? If not, I intend to spend some time writing scripts to handle the airport card properly. * keymaps -- it took me some time to get the keymap I wanted for my UK-spec iBook (particularly I want the pound-sign and Euro-sign printed on the keycaps to do the right thing.) Among other things, I had to use the Irish Euro locale, as there's no UK Euro locale, and I also hacked up an xkb map. I'd love to see Debian have more direct support for these keyboards. I sent my xkb files to Branden, just in case, but I'm not sure exactly what I expected him to do with them :) * external video -- I currently get a very wavy picture on my external CRT using m3mirror to switch on the VGA output. From what I can see on the mailing lists, it looks like we're still some time away from a solution to this problem. As I present at conferences with a projector I'm *really* hoping that either the projector can cope with the peculiar sync signal, or that someone will find the way to get the external output going :) cheers -- Edd
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