On Wed, Jun 7, 2000, Olaf Grewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just installed Debian quite successfully on my PowerBook (FW/12G/256M, >kernel 2.2.15pre14-ben1). Even if it runs fine, I feel that there might be >room for improvment. So if you have any hints and tips, I'd be glad get >mail from you. Maybe there's a mailing list archive you can point me to. > >Specifically I'm looking for
>- getting sound, AirPort and IrDA to work Heh, one after each other ;) All those are on my to-do list, but if you want to help... >- a debian-package for Xpmac.rage128.revX Better: A debian package for XF4 with Howarth patches ;) (works fine on the pismo now) >- using an external monitor together w/ my LCD This require some serious aty128fb hacking. I'm considering first adding some stuff to simply mirror the internal video to the VGA output (triggered by an ioctl to avoid enabling the second CRTC when not necessary - save battery life). A better implementation would then be to make aty128fb a real multi-head driver. >- what's special about benh's kernel Nothing for now. Just use Paul's linux-pmac-stable. My precompiled kernels used to contain cutting-edge support for new machines, but all this has been merged in Paul tree now. I'll post new precompiled kernels when I have new stuffs for you to test.
