Re: Anybody with Debian on an iBook2.2?

2003-05-20 Thread Jan Braun
Hi Viktor,

Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've recently bought an iBook with a 700MHz G3 and installed Debian
> unstable on since that's what I've been using for a long time.  I don't
> have so many questions regarding Debian specifically, but rather Linux
> on the iBook, and since it's hard to find people on the net with the
> same setup I might as well ask here.
> 

I own an Apple Powerbook (the so called Pismo Edition, with an 400 MHz
G3, Firewire and a DVD drive).  I'm running the actual testing
distribution on that machine.

> E.g., playing DVDs in mplayer.  It simply doesn't work.  The sound is
> okay, but the video runs only at half the speed.  Eventually, it just

I tired to compile my own kernel, but I wasn't able to get sound
working.  I didn't try playing DVDs.

Do you use a selfmade kernel?  Can you send my your kernel config?

> stops.  Now, mplayer prints out that my hardware is too slow, but that
> doesn't really make sense, since the processor and the grafics card
> should be fast enough.  Besides, I can play DVDs under OSX just fine.
> 

I'm still stuck on MacOS-9.2, but I neither have any problems in
playing DVDs (and my processor is only running at 400 MHz, which is
nearly the half of yours ;-).

Bye

Jan
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Re: Anybody with Debian on an iBook2.2?

2003-05-14 Thread Werner Heuser
> I've recently bought an iBook with a 700MHz G3 and installed Debian
> unstable on since that's what I've been using for a long time.  I don't
> have so many questions regarding Debian specifically, but rather Linux
> on the iBook, and since it's hard to find people on the net with the
> same setup I might as well ask here.

You may find some entries in the Unix Laptop Survey:
http://tuxmobil.org/apple.html besides laptop models also
the Linux distribution and the language of documentation is mentioned.

Werner

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