Re: Question about compatibility...
Hmm. As long as it's not an insurmountable obstacle, I think I might
go ahead and go for the 12" model after all.
On 10/7/11, Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl> wrote:
> I collected it. My users of MintPPC reported recently that nouveau has
> problems but that if you use nv, it works like a charm.
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> Op 7/10/2011 schreef "John Ames" <commodorejohn@gmail.com>:
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>>Oh, right, that was your site, guess you must've confirmed. Silly me
>>;D Did you experience any kind of video corruption like in the bug
>>reports or like David experienced?
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>>On 10/7/11, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hmm, interesting. http://mac.linux.be/files/xorg/powerbook4.txt
>>> appears to be for exactly the model I'd like to get, the 1.5GHz 12"
>>> Powerbook, using nouveau. (It seems it supports all the way down to
>>> monochrome colordepth!?!?) Can anybody confirm whether this works or
>>> not? I'd assume it must, if they bothered to put it there...
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>>> On 10/7/11, Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl> wrote:
>>>> Have a look here, you will lots of xorg.conf files I collected over the
>>>> years. What I found out is that nouveau does not work well, but the old
>>>> nv driver works fine for nvidia cards:
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>>>> http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-files
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>>>> Op 7/10/2011 schreef "John Ames" <commodorejohn@gmail.com>:
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>>>>>On 10/6/11, Brian Morris <cymraegish@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> if you get the 15", make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it
>>>>>> someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot.
>>>>>Oh, naturally. I had both a 1GB DDR stick (for the 12") and 2x 1GB
>>>>>DDR2 sticks (for the 15") on hand anyway, so whichever I get I'll be
>>>>>able to max it right out.
>>>>>
>>>>>> My main gripe besides the RAM issue is the hard drive
>>>>>> replacement is difficult.
>>>>>Yep, it's not as bad to get into as some laptops I've seen, but it
>>>>>certainly would've been decent of them to give it a proper access slot
>>>>>:/ I have a high-capacity drive, I plan on replacing it once and then
>>>>>never opening it again.
>>>>>
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