Hello, I have an iBook (G3/800, 12", DVD/CDRW) and it started to behave very strange yesterday. I put it to sleep and take it with me (in a Kensington's notebook backpack), but there was no nescessity to use it. I came back, put it on a desk and problems showed up - it made some sounds like usually when waking up and then nothing - blank screen, no reaction for mouse, keyboard, so on.
I rebooted it (command+control+power) and MAC OS X booted also without anything on screen. I know it was OS X because when harddrive was no longer working I pressed "power" and then enter and computer turned off after some seconds. Then after couple of reboots friendly OpenFirmware screen showed up and I was able to boot linux. Now I don't know if it is hardware or software problem. My first impression was it is strictly hardware (motherboard?), but then I started thinking - why is OS X starting (linux is my default os)? Today the same happened. I cannot replicate procedure to finally solve problem, but the problem occurs when I take the computer with me when I go to university. Maybe some shock problems (but I use special Kensington notebook backpack)? I would really appreciate if some of you could say anything more - if this is motherboard problem I have 9 days of warranty for it (it was replaced last year in June 2003), if it is anything other piece of hardware that probably means a lot of money to spend (Apple computers are very expensive in my country - the cheapes iBook G4 1GHz is 1600$ which is american price for the cheapest PowerBook G4 1,33GHz) - warranty expired. I am using Debian SID with 2.6.6 kernel from Debian, self-compiled with Cedric's patch for therm_adm103x driver (I compiled this kernel on Wednesday 9th of July, and my problems started yesterday - maybe they are related?). -- Best regards, Łukasz Studziński Poland -- Pozdrawiam, Łukasz Studziński
