Hi,
On Saturday 08 June 2002 08:23 pm, Sean Schertell wrote: > I'd really love to know if ANYONE has had a complete success story with > ANY Linux on a Radeon equipped PB G4 (550/667 MHz). I've been > struggling for 3 months or so with various distros including Mandrake > 8.2, which installs like a dream, but then things get funky. I'm > willing to plug away for another 3 months if someone out there can give > me a message of hope. So has anybody gotten one these TiBooks > (W/Radeon) to run silky smooth with audio, hardware accelerated > graphics, sleep and wake functionality (that last one's important to > me) ??? How about KDE 3 with anti-aliasing? XINE DVD Player? If I > keep working at this, can Linux truly replace OS X for me without > crashing every time I close the lid? Any words of encouragement or > advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Sean I don't use my TiBook 550 each & every day (I'm usually on a PC), but when I do it works great. It has a Radeon, and the video & sound are fine. I use the PowerBook to listen to CDs, MP3s; and watch DVDs with Xine and Ogle at 24bit color. KDE3 installed easily and runs great (but I don't use anti-aliased fonts). Mac-on-Linux runs full-screen at a good speed, and Mozilla 1.0 works nicely (with a minor library tweak). With the PowerBook utilities from Ben's Reser's download site, the function keys control the sound and video brighness (thanks Ben). Even the USB scanner and webcam works on this laptop. But the sleep & wake feature doesn't seem to work -- after it wakes up, the video is badly garbled. And Konqueror doesn't work with FTP sites (message is "Could not connect to host"). That's all the negatives I can think of right now. There's no need to give up, but I'm not sure why you're having so many problems. Did you upgrade a previous installation, or perform a clean install? Bye, Phil
