On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 16:16, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought about buying the Powerbook G4 15" 1GHz, but have a few > GNU/Linux related questions. So I would be happy If someone who has this > TiBook could give me some answeres ...
Good, I just got mine today ;) > As far as I know > - Powermanagement does work with latest Benh Kernels (suspend) Yes. > - XFree86 work's but without 3D Accelration It works _with_ 3D acceleration provided you use Michel's latest DRI snapshots. There may be a few cases of lockups still with apps using lots of texture (flightgear ?), though I have no problem with foobillard or tuxracer > - Sound works Yes. > Do this components work? > - PCMCIA Slot? (with pcmcia-cs? because of orinoco-cs monitor patch) Not tested yet, but I suppose it will, it's just yet another TI bridge with nothing much different on the motherboard than older models > - Modem? (heard that there is an closed source driver) Haven't tried the driver on this model yet. > How long can you work with your powerbook on battery power? I haven't had it for long enough yet ;) I set it up so that it switches the CPU to 667Mhz when running on battery, it seem to have reasonable consumption, I suspect it can go up to 4 hours, maybe more if you are careful. > Yes, i know, this depends on what you do with the Powerbook, right. > But what are your experiences? > - on normal working (vi, ssh, email, web, irc, etc.) > - and on heavy cpu using (compiling, etc.) > This is my most important question because I have an Pismo and could > live with the slow cpu of the G3, but not with intel-like on-battery > times :-/ > > And how often do you hear the fan? how hot will it get? > is there a problem like the "toasted ibooks in sleep-mode"? ;) No problem like that I know about. I'm not sure yet about that toasted ibook is really a linux issue btw. I suspect there may be a batch of faultly ibooks around... And so far, it really only ever happened on ibook 800s. The fan is variable speed. I often hear it at low speed when working on AC power (1Ghz), doing some 3D stuff or kernel compiles kicks it to full speed. Ben.
