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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > Op 7/10/2011 schreef "John Ames" <[email protected]>: > >>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? >> >>On 10/7/11, John Ames <[email protected]> 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... >>> >>> On 10/7/11, Jeroen Diederen <[email protected]> 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: >>>> >>>> http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-files >>>> >>>> Op 7/10/2011 schreef "John Ames" <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>>On 10/6/11, Brian Morris <[email protected]> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>>>>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>>>> [email protected] >>>>>Archive: >>>>> http://lists.debian.org/cabcbcvpewedw1skmbxtqwps+mt_mebxy2tuzrxxke-zcywi...@mail.gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABCBCvOE-cQfob9d7Lh4rxE9Brav-oWR1wiE+4t_SntUraR=5...@mail.gmail.com
