This one time, at band camp, 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 ...
Model IV? see http://spacepants.org/hw/tibook/ >As far as I know >- Powermanagement does work with latest Benh Kernels (suspend) yep >- XFree86 work's but without 3D Accelration yes, if you use Michel Daenzer's dri-trunk package, as explained on my page. >- Sound works >right? yep. >Do this components work? >- PCMCIA Slot? (with pcmcia-cs? because of orinoco-cs monitor patch) >- Modem? (heard that there is an closed source driver) I haven't tried either of these yet. >How long can you work with your powerbook on battery power? Before I used Gnome 2, I was getting easily 4.5 hours (with the screen brightness low and the cpu running in powersave mode). Now I'm getting about 3 hours... i think Gnome 2 is causing my disk to spin a bit more. >And how often do you hear the fan? how hot will it get? hot when i use it, it's cold after sleeping for a bit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq
