On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:48:52PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:48, stamp wrote:
> > BJ> 12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen
> > BJ> 800 MHz PowerPC G3
> > BJ> 512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz)
> > BJ> 256 MB SDRAM-memory
> > BJ> 30 GB Ultra ATA-unit
> > BJ> DVD/CD-RW-unit
> > BJ> ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
> > BJ> 32 MB graphic mem
> > BJ> 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
> > BJ> Internal 56K-modem
> > BJ> AirPort-ready
> >
> > works really fine for me, except the modem (i don't use it anyway, but
> > i heard it was a real problem to get this running...)
> >
> > i didn't try to play dvd, but... hey!
> > you don't need GHz's to play dvd!
>
> DVD may actually be a problem with a G3 CPU, difficult to say...
> I would expect 800Mhz to be enough, but well...
I never tried to play DVD under Linux, but they play well under
OS-9 and OS-X on my Pismo (G3/400/512Mb) with 8Mb of video RAM
(typically through S-Video output to my TV).
Never used the modem either, I shall try soon.
Gabriel
