On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 23:13, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 3 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > > >> > hardware will also hopefully be supported in the mainline kernel by > >> > then, and if not it will certainly be in the PPC specific kernels. > >> > >> Aside from the 3D acceleration and the modem most stuff is already > >> supported to at least a reasonable. I think the only things I've not > >> tried are PCMCIA (I'm pretty sure that's supported), IR and the video > >> out. > >> > >> Basically, you'd be pretty much OK if you had one now and things are > >> likely to get better. > > > > Absolutely. When I'll become the proud owner of such a machine at last, > > I won't be able to live without 3D acceleration for a long time - all > > those games are just no fun without. So I'm rather confident that it'll > > work in XFree86 4.3.0 at the latest. :) > > Will it be that long until you finally get that PB?
Of course I hope to get one sooner... > You'd better make them keep one for you if you want a Ti.. until then they'll > be oldtimers > ;-) Hahaha. :) You're saying there will be new PowerBooks by this summer? Not that I'd mind getting an even better box... Do you have contacts with Apple? :) > PS I suppose you noticed the combo drive in the new configs? Yes, so? I never asked for one of those. ;) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
