On 25 Nov, this message from Rog�rio Brito echoed through cyberspace: > I was surfing the brazilian version of Ebay and found an > (second-hand) older TiBook which is costing less than an > iBook2, which seemed to me a good oportunity.
;-) > Assuming that the hardware of this TiBook is working correctly > (and that the person is only trying to sell it because he > needs the money), would I encounter any problems with it > running Linux? Are there any peripherals that are not > supported (like sound or the DVD)? I have a TiBook/400, and evrything works pretty well. As long as you use recent software (2.4 kernels, XFree 4.1, mostly), evrything is supported. DVD playing is starting to be Altivec-accelerated, so works useably well. Sound is supported in the 2.4 kernels, but there are still a few quirks left with byte order with some applications. FWIW, my TiBook works _lots_ better than a Dell Lattitude from work, which constantly crashes on wakeup. > BTW, talking about DVDs, I think that the DVDs of all > computers available recently in the marked are RPC2 compliant, > but how does it work in Linux? Are the Open Source players > "agnostic" regarding the region coding system? No Linux player has ever asked me any questions about region coding. But since my DVD is flashed to be RPC-1, I'm not sure why that is so... Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
