Tom Rini wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:35:42AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > > > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I just ordered one of the nice new 2001 iBooks - the 128Mb/DVD version > > > to be exact. > > > Are there any Gotcha's that I should know about with this box? What > > > hardware is supported, and what's not, etc? > [snip] > > as for hardware support im not sure how 2.2.19 likes them, i think it > > probably won't care for the video so you will need to add video=ofonly > > at the yaboot prompt when you boot the CD. (potato r3 CDs should > > boot). > > This is needed. Hopefully woody's boot-floppies will have the patch I put > up so that video is detected properly.
I stand corrected. > > ill let others comment on things such as kernel issues and X11. > > [...] potato's X works fine, iirc. But it's sloooow... > 4.0.x in woody worked great too and the 4.1.0 debs in testing work fine, w/ > a minor issue on scrolling (possibly in 4.0.x if you use the r128 driver > instead of fbdev). What issue? I'm not aware of any bugs related to scrolling. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
