On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 22:59, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to the powerpc port of debian and want to buy ibookG4 12" or > pbookG4 12" to use it. The main issue is about graphic card : ATI > Mobility Radeon 9200 on ibook and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 on pbook. > None of them are well supported by Xfree/Xorg drivers (no resume on > suspend etc.); so I'm wondering which graphic card will be better > supported in future (I've no feel on how much efforts are spent on ppc > ATI or NVIDIA free drivers) in order to choose between ibook and pbook > 12". Can someone give me some hints on that? > Are there other hw related issues in order to prefer ibook or pbook 12" ?
We might soon get sleep working on ATI based ones but I doubt we'll get that with nVidia ones. Note that both 12" modules use an nVidia chip afaik. There is definitely better support from ATI. Ben.
