On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:33, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > it does no get as hot as the 12" one, i.e. the front (where the akku/hd > is located) stays cool all the time... however on the back it can become > really hot... ... I can second that. Only if I compile the kernel the back gets so hot I cannot leave it on my lap. Only then the ventilation kicks in.
> > - - And finally (this is less important), what about the sleep mode?. > works more or less perfect... I have like 2 crashes when entering sleep > mode per month and I put it into sleep mode 3-5 times a day... I have absolutely no crashes if I always wait for the PB to finish entering the sleep mode or the wake-up procedure to complete successfully. I use Ben's "stable" kernels and pmud. > I am very satisfied with that notebook... every hardware except external > TFT/CRT/Video output are supported ... never had that with a notebook. I am amazed how well Linux works on the ppc platform. I never liked Macs before I got to know Linux and since then I have had a variety of ppc machines. On my TiBook 400 MHz, the VGA and S-Video outputs do not work, however, which makes the laptop unsuitable for presentations. I can activate the VGA output with Ben's kernel driver (and m3mirror utility), but it shows just a few lines as long as in character mode and garbage as soon as in X. Once in X, the garbage remains, even if I switch to console in between. (Console blanking works, however.) I should post a separate message regarding this problem. The cpufreq issue is just another one I gotta investigate. My further grief goes to the lack of math libraries using the Altivec instructions. (???) I haven't investigated yet, but FPU (?) processing in Linux seems really slow on the PPC processor. If I rotate a picture in GIMP on a Duron 1000 MHz and on a PowerPC G4 400 MHz, the Duron finishes in less than half the time. Anyone knows why this is the case? Can this be fixed at the compiler level? I can imagine, the new IBM PowerPC (?907) would offer an amazing Altivec processing power to justify the efforts. On the other side, Apple certainly has adapted gcc so I do not know what is wrong. Watching DVD movies with xine works much more smoothless on my ppc than on my x86 machines. Salut Mark -- Krisztian Mark Szentes produktivIT - Open-Source Solution Provider Siebenbrunnengasse 55/7 A-1050 Wien
