Am Die, 27 Jun 2000 schrieb Daryl Manning:
> I, too, have been looking into this combo as iBooks are cheaper here in
> France than comparably powered laptops, and hey, well, let's face it, a cool
> orange beast that has 6 hours of automomy is pretty cool.
>
> My understanding of the problems so far are this:
> 1. Sound does not work
Schnipp!
> 5. The SuSe distro is still in beta, you should use LinuxPPC or YellowDog
> (both have been reported having problems)
Schnipp!
> For me, the killer is sound. I *really* like playing the MP3s while I work,
> so a quiet laptop for me is anethema. I don't know, a lot of people seem to
> be interested in the Linux/iBook combo so I'm sure full support is on its
> way.
>
> Take care,
> Daryl.
Am Die, 27 Jun 2000 ging die Sonne auf und Billy Ball schrieb:
>
> i used an ibook in my latest Linux book "Linux for the Laptop," which
> should be out in a week or so... the current status:
>
> PPC Linux works well on the ibook (i used Yellow Dog and PPC Linux 2000)
>
> the internal ethernet port is supported
>
> sound is not supported by any distribution
>
> the internal modem works! *but* you must boot using Apple's OpenFirmware
> prompt and the Yaboot loader... when you boot this way, X is limited to
> 256 colors
>
> if you boot using BootX, you can use X11 at 16bpp, but the modem won't
> work...
>
> pass kernel arguments to map buttons 2 and 3 (middle and right) to F11 and
> F12...
>
> hope this helps...
>
> bball
Bonjour Daryl, hi Billy!
je vous remercie de votre conseil immediat, and that's as far as my French
goes...
Yes, I agree, not having sound is a bummer. I like my mp3 (sung to the
tune of Dire Straits "I want my MTV"). Did you try OSS? Yes I know it's
commercial, but before I spend hours and hours trying to get sound to work on
some obscure sound card under one of the PC Unices, I've had good experience
using their sound driver. 20$ well spent, IMHO.
What you told us about boot loaders and colour depth vs. modem working seems
as if the first method didn't use X at all, but a framebuffer console, is that
right? And what about alternative XServers, what about Xfree 4.0?
Billy, at what publisher does your book on Linux on laptops come out? Will it
be available through online booksellers? Replying to this won't be seen as an
UCE (a nice politically correct abbr. for unsolicited commercial e-mail I
recently saw used on BUGTRAQ. It's still spam with me.).
Thanks again for your informative replies.
Christoph
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