On Wednesday 27 June 2001 02:29, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > I am shopping around for a new laptop and I think the new ibook looks > pretty sweet. If I do get it I would want to run debian on it most of the > time, so I have a few questions about the status of hardware support. > > Power Mgt -- Are the power management functions (sleep, charging, > backlight control, etc.) supported?
It seems to be with the 2.4.4-b3 sources I got from a YDL developer.....so I am guessing its made it to Benh's kernel(it could be one of Benh's kernels for that matter). Either way, it works for me. with the /etc/power/levels file set '1 2'. I get quite a decent amount of life out of my batteries. Sleep works just fine too. > > Video -- it's a Rage Mobility 128 chip; I assume this is supported in the > latest Xfree86? Is there the ability to switch from the internal display > to the external (RGB/composite) connectors? Worked with 4.0....but I compiled 4.1 without a hitch. With 4.1 the ati128 is supported AND accelerated plus support for DRI. > > Sound -- I heard this wasn't working; I have a USB audio converter so I > can do without it for a while. I hear its cause of the new "tumble" sound internals. Sure hope it gets working soon. ***If there is anything a developer want me to try, I certainly will.**** Also: cdr works dvd works airport works 10/100 nic works usb works and the vga out works(at least in consol) if you boot with an option of: video=aty128fb:crt:1,lcd:1 I suppose you could do that all the time with a yaboot.conf append, but I don't know if that would add battery use or not. John Hughes
