Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma
> good display clarity (I mainly use aterms on fluxbox though)
That should be ok, though if the dispay is a 6 bits panel, you may want
to add option "FBDither" "true" to the "Device" section of the nv driver
in xorg.conf
> wireless networking (I expect to have to buy a wireless adapter)
For now, you'll need an adapter. The folks reverse engineering the
airport extreme are making good progress but it's not there yet.
> sleep
That is the main issue. Somebody need to figure out how to bring the
nVidia chip back from power off, which is a complicated procedure and we
totally lack any documentation from nVidia... It may be doable, but I
don't have one of these machines so I can't really try to hack on that
myself. In the meantime, suspend-to-disk should work.
> trackpad
That should work with the new appletouch driver.
> There is a report of suspending to disk working here:
> http://www.ncc.up.pt/~rvr/kh/kh.html
Yes, STD should work.
> And a report of making the trackpad work here:
> http://www.popies.net/atp/
>
> I'd be really grateful for any advice on whether I should try and make
> this work, or give up now! My problem is that I've lost a couple of days
> of work because of my fried G3 ibook, and losing much more time is out
> of the question. Would an Aluminium 15'' or G4 ibook work much better?
ATI based machines will definitely be better supported. The newest
aluminium models aren't supported yet for the simple reason that they
have a new chipset and I didn't have access to one yet :) But I've
already ordered one so ...
> Sorry to use up everyone's bandwidth on this.
>
> Many thanks,
> Rory
>
>
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