Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4
On Tue, Apr 22 2008, at 10:23 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> I switched back to etch on this laptop and everything worked like
> magic.
>
> So right now I am back to running etch on this machine, which is
> great. I just had to recompile a lot of the software that I needed
> (claws mail 3.4.0, pidgin, etc.) but it didn't take too long since I
> knew what I was doing and which libraries to install.
Ever having considered to install sid/unstable? Most of the time it
works like a charm on ab old titanium here:
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processor : 0
cpu : 7455, altivec supported
clock : 667.000000MHz
revision : 0.2 (pvr 8001 0302)
bogomips : 66.56
timebase : 33331438
platform : PowerMac
machine : PowerBook3,5
motherboard : PowerBook3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 80 (PowerBook Titanium IV)
pmac flags : 0000001b
L2 cache : 256K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
*****
Graphics hardware:
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
*****
I don't know which "Powerbook G4 Titanium 500MHz" you have, but the
one from cpuinfo, etc., above (maxm. 867 MHz), is having
Debian/unstable on it since a very long time with few software
problems, IIRC, over the last 2 or 3 years.
There are problems from time to time ("unstable", sic!), sure enough,
but most of them not difficult enough that even a lazybones like me
would not be able find some solution to solve them ... :)
HTH
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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