Re: New Ibook out today- possible problems?
On Nov 07 2002, christophe barbe wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:49:28AM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
It seems that your mutt configuration is a tiny bit weird. I'm
using the following lines in my muttrc:
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# Use latin1 as much as possible
set charset=iso-8859-1
set send_charset=iso-8859-1
charset-hook us-ascii iso-8859-1
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> > On Nov 07 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > ATI finally replied ;)
> >
> > That's lovely! :-)
> That's a great news!
It just crossed my mind that we may be speaking about
different iBooks. :-) Mine is an iBook 600MHz, combo, late
2001.
> > It would be nice if they released the specs for hardware
> > decompression of DVDs, but I don't know if their support would
> > go as far as that. :-)
>
> I don't know if this chip supports that.
I think it does, but if ATI supports that for Linux is another
matter entirely. :-)
> It would be better for the power consumption (and the associated
> heat) but at least we can watch DVD using software decompression.
Well, my iBook seems to have some problems trying to keep up
with decoding DVDs in software. :-(
> Clearly the resume/suspend feature is the most important.
I guess that this applies to your (newer) iBook.
> Less important but still useful missing features for this chip are a
> m3mirror equivalent and the ability to switch on/of the tv out.
I haven't tried m3mirror with my iBook yet. BTW, could we have
it packaged for Debian? If nobody wants to do the job, I think
that I could package it myself.
[]s, Roger...
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