Thanks, that's *exactly* what I needed to know. I can deal with editing config files just so long as it actually does *work*. Bummer about the missing functionality, but the only real losses for me are backlight and hibernate; still, those *are* pretty essential. Am I reading you correctly that the backlight goes off whenever the machine is on battery power? That's pretty inconvenient...
On 10/8/11, Clea F. Rees <ree...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm dual booting OS X and Wheezy (testing) on the 12" 1.5 GHz model with the > nvidia card. I have the full 1.25G ram. I would like to switch to linux as > my main system but it isn't sufficiently usable (for me) at this point. > > You can definitely get proper colour but I didn't get that by default. I > edited yaboot.conf to force use of the nouveau drivers (rather than nv). > However, the nouveau website status is a bit misleading - at least it seems > so to me. I don't much care about 3d so can't say much about that (I'm not > using the experimental stuff). I do, however, care about control of the > backlight. I had this with nv but no go with nouveau. I don't just mean the > function keys don't work etc. - the kernel (I think) doesn't recognise the > backlight at all. > > Neither hibernate nor suspend to ram work properly in any configuration I've > tried. The closest I've got is a setup which enabled suspend to disk. One > method always triggered an error on resume - even though the checksums > matched, the system claimed they didn't and so refused to resume from the > "corrupted" image. The second method avoided this problem but resumed with > the backlight either off or so low as to be off to all intensive purposes. > Since there is no way to control the backlight, it isn't possible to recover > without rebooting which rather undermines the point of hibernating in the > first place. > > If I accidentally boot on battery power, the backlight is off/so dim as to > be essentially off and, again, lack of control necessitates reboot. The same > happens if I accidentally go onto battery power for a moment or if the power > fails momentarily. > > Sound works. Wifi works but requires a closed-source blob. Trackpad > more-or-less works. Functionality exceeds that under OS X but implementation > isn't as smooth/flawless. I cannot get the system to recognise the trackpad > button as primary mouse - it insists on making it secondary. However, if you > mouse with your right hand, you shouldn't have this problem. > > I'm running XFCE which seems fine to me. Gnome is like treacle. I didn't > like LXDE as well but I forget why. > > If you do get one of these and you figure out the backlight, hibernate or > suspend, please do let me know. I may just not be doing things right as I do > not have much experience with linux. (It took me several weeks just to get X > working.) I need suspend to ram and/or disk (hybrid would be ideal) in order > for this to be usable for me so right now I'm stuck in OS X. Since this is > getting increasingly problematic, I'm starting to feel stuck trying to > choose the lesser of two evils! > > Hope something of this is helpful. > - cfr > > > On 6 October 2011 19:21, John Ames <commodorej...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm going to be purchasing an aluminum Powerbook G4 on which I want to >> run Debian. However, I'm trying to decide which model. Initially I was >> looking at the 12" 1.5GHz model (M9690LL/A,) which is roughly on par >> with the laptop I have now, specs-wise, and that fills my needs pretty >> adequately. However, I've also been giving some consideration to the >> 15" 1.67GHz model (M9969LL/A); it's a bit pricier, but it can take >> more RAM and has a Radeon chipset instead of a GeForce chipset, which >> means better driver support. >> >> All things considered, I think I'm leaning more towards the 12" model, >> though - I really don't like big laptops, and 12" is about as large as >> I really want to go. My question is, how's the compatibility? It looks >> from the nouveau page like support for the GeForce FX Go5200 is about >> on par with support for the GeForce 7800 in my Power Mac G5, and >> that's acceptable for anything that isn't 3D, which I think I can live >> with. I'm just wondering if anybody has a similar setup running and >> can tell me how well it works overall, and if there are any pitfalls >> to be aware of. >> >> >> -- >> 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/cabcbcvpoajz6gefnrfx-wicmiurum+xso6xzk1uwrxpwyqa...@mail.gmail.com >> >> > -- 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/cabcbcvm2bmoe5dkkwvzxcolsvbf0qma+5vu9vdonoz4g1s_...@mail.gmail.com
