I know these things are brand new, but I was wondering if anyone else had a Radeon-equipped Powerbook yet?
For anyone who's interested, here's my progress so far: * Installing wasn't easy. I used the r3 potato CD and worked around the "video=ofonly" situation...after that, it wasn't too hard to get finished. Finding info on that kernel option, though, took a bit. I had limited time to get the ISO, so I didn't try to find the woody install ISOs (sorry). * Upgrading to unstable went as I expected and I ran into no problems that I couldn't get through. * I got BenH's latest (as of yesterday) kernel source and compiled a custom kernel. The Radeon FB on this variety of chip support still seems to be immature. It booted into 640x480 (making the text a very small subset of this giant screen). When I used fbset to scale it up to 1152x768, the FB was VERY slow, taking nearly 30 secs to display a screenful of a manpage. Scaling it back down made it faster, but not nearly as fast as the OF FB (so I switched back to that for now). * Because of the above, I haven't been able to get X going reliably on it. I've barely tried so far, though, in all fairness. I managed to get it working once, but at 640x480 and the keymap was fubar. That was using the FB Xserver, not the 'ati' server, which failed to detect the adapter at all (I tried specifing BusID also, which didn't work). * Power management doesn't seem to work very well yet with this PMU. I don't think they changed it, but the framebuffer differences cause odd things to happen when it tries to go to sleep. I haven't tried beyond putting the screen to sleep yet. * Haven't tried sound, but I did insmod the same modules that are for the iBooks and they detected the hardware. I'll have to run a few tunes through it soon and see what happens. * For the curious, I plugged in my Logitech optical mouse to one of the USB ports and it worked in OS X with all of the buttons :-) Hello new gaming machine! :-P In all, not bad (expected worse on such a new machine). I like the laptop and will get quite a bit of use out of it despite the above (I don't usually run X often and can always go to OS X if I need a GUI for something). I also understand that these things will improve over time, so I'm sure I'll be testing it out quite a bit and will try to provide reports to the list... C
