Re: Question about compatibility...
Thanks, that's *exactly* what I needed to know. I can deal with
editing config files just so long as it actually does *work*. Bummer
about the missing functionality, but the only real losses for me are
backlight and hibernate; still, those *are* pretty essential. Am I
reading you correctly that the backlight goes off whenever the machine
is on battery power? That's pretty inconvenient...
On 10/8/11, Clea F. Rees <reescf@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm dual booting OS X and Wheezy (testing) on the 12" 1.5 GHz model with the
> nvidia card. I have the full 1.25G ram. I would like to switch to linux as
> my main system but it isn't sufficiently usable (for me) at this point.
>
> You can definitely get proper colour but I didn't get that by default. I
> edited yaboot.conf to force use of the nouveau drivers (rather than nv).
> However, the nouveau website status is a bit misleading - at least it seems
> so to me. I don't much care about 3d so can't say much about that (I'm not
> using the experimental stuff). I do, however, care about control of the
> backlight. I had this with nv but no go with nouveau. I don't just mean the
> function keys don't work etc. - the kernel (I think) doesn't recognise the
> backlight at all.
>
> Neither hibernate nor suspend to ram work properly in any configuration I've
> tried. The closest I've got is a setup which enabled suspend to disk. One
> method always triggered an error on resume - even though the checksums
> matched, the system claimed they didn't and so refused to resume from the
> "corrupted" image. The second method avoided this problem but resumed with
> the backlight either off or so low as to be off to all intensive purposes.
> Since there is no way to control the backlight, it isn't possible to recover
> without rebooting which rather undermines the point of hibernating in the
> first place.
>
> If I accidentally boot on battery power, the backlight is off/so dim as to
> be essentially off and, again, lack of control necessitates reboot. The same
> happens if I accidentally go onto battery power for a moment or if the power
> fails momentarily.
>
> Sound works. Wifi works but requires a closed-source blob. Trackpad
> more-or-less works. Functionality exceeds that under OS X but implementation
> isn't as smooth/flawless. I cannot get the system to recognise the trackpad
> button as primary mouse - it insists on making it secondary. However, if you
> mouse with your right hand, you shouldn't have this problem.
>
> I'm running XFCE which seems fine to me. Gnome is like treacle. I didn't
> like LXDE as well but I forget why.
>
> If you do get one of these and you figure out the backlight, hibernate or
> suspend, please do let me know. I may just not be doing things right as I do
> not have much experience with linux. (It took me several weeks just to get X
> working.) I need suspend to ram and/or disk (hybrid would be ideal) in order
> for this to be usable for me so right now I'm stuck in OS X. Since this is
> getting increasingly problematic, I'm starting to feel stuck trying to
> choose the lesser of two evils!
>
> Hope something of this is helpful.
> - cfr
>
>
> On 6 October 2011 19:21, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to be purchasing an aluminum Powerbook G4 on which I want to
>> run Debian. However, I'm trying to decide which model. Initially I was
>> looking at the 12" 1.5GHz model (M9690LL/A,) which is roughly on par
>> with the laptop I have now, specs-wise, and that fills my needs pretty
>> adequately. However, I've also been giving some consideration to the
>> 15" 1.67GHz model (M9969LL/A); it's a bit pricier, but it can take
>> more RAM and has a Radeon chipset instead of a GeForce chipset, which
>> means better driver support.
>>
>> All things considered, I think I'm leaning more towards the 12" model,
>> though - I really don't like big laptops, and 12" is about as large as
>> I really want to go. My question is, how's the compatibility? It looks
>> from the nouveau page like support for the GeForce FX Go5200 is about
>> on par with support for the GeForce 7800 in my Power Mac G5, and
>> that's acceptable for anything that isn't 3D, which I think I can live
>> with. I'm just wondering if anybody has a similar setup running and
>> can tell me how well it works overall, and if there are any pitfalls
>> to be aware of.
>>
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