-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 Hi there.
Since I have one iBook G4 here, I think that one use for it would be to put it to work as a home-theater PC. Unfortunately, it seems that we have some problems: * When I plug an external (1920x1080) monitor on it, I can only get 1024x768 on the external monitor, which is, of course, quite bad. More than that, I can only use the external monitor if I disable the internal monitor, because, otherwise, I get a message (paraphrased) that tells me that the largest screen that can be allocated is 1024x1024. I can provide the full details if desired. I am using gnome 2's monitor/randr applet to choose which output to use. This is weird, because I remember using a hack in OpenFirmware that unlocked the iBook's ability to use two screens as its monitor in the past. It worked fine with MacOS X 10.5, but I don't have MacOS X installed anymore. [0] [0]: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html Is it possible to get rid of any of those limitations? Any one of the use of the external monitor in some higher resolution or the use of the external monitor as an extension of the internal one would be nice additions. * It seems that the "ready made" media center programs (XBMC) use a lot of OpenGL stuff and that is sufficient to bring this notebook to its knees, even when browsing the menus. Almost unusable. I tried moovida, and it is definitely faster, but it has some bugs and upstream seems to be dead (well, the released a closed source version, but that's only for other operating systems). This is a pity, since Moovida seems like a very good choice for weaker machines, but I don't know of any effort to continue maintaining the 1.x series. Sad. Finally, MythTV seems to insist in having a capture card installed in its backend and, for that reason, I didn't go much further with it. Any comments regarding this situation would be quite appreciated. Thanks, Rogério Brito. - -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCQAGBQJNs9igAAoJEAdHvTm8/Kqq2UkQAKArXofFzcgAR9bC+rRd3k/g V7I9wXuHzKf5BYEcD/DXhlntPSyvjVs5oRRV9X8v01bOkIQFZg71T1haaNphYehf yU3XioUy2W/rv7CHhFzakEByd6p6brgUyPzaVvKjOHT6mZRaJw4AKs6IQ8jkuDWY uMXcTW0xgr6nV4OeUv2rO12M8apIjRWUC9HA323EeY8nMucRAAhVK7REUTjH3CWm T0dKbylCcMsO1DnPTPlrf8LtNFlpVNp1hXTKuf0ROk+Qdbd+J7F/9t/1fc7+fFXG K9YEgjmQQgsXnp2fGnK7SZJ3bxPumeiEe/SYe0zXvoBkhGNK4nlzi0G4HhxUIHFf 5bkcsKml44Nm2tmgw0zNSVwKPOUBOyNAE1KX9H+CJBBAz2k71TiuKdS4M8vYU1GE C91OTy8EpDT1uMfiTwFUlsLknAwvNzdhSWInORaOQyw91xlNynoQdrAe0/SNO4Ob 6Zh1c0u6DZ33sXRU0l6B/eZ2skiwDGU8vUPKmLcfQbzqUSMdY0K9x1TzYJcw+XHo 7N01gp/F0j5wO9HTnZV/It16OQ1lZy3AkXyR8H3bN++LFBaIVzI7Mre2hp6lFVrP 8Z1O+LcHDlfzozvpfT+IPpI79hO4awytIG4YO3CcNR07vRLdueX9VgvvI2Wq/T+O 7Dx5cE76+s85iYwMxRCU =C4WS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db3d8a0.3090...@ime.usp.br
