Re: ibook g4 hard drive failures

Probably the parameter of "reallocated sector counts" (initially 100 and currently 001) decreased in the last weeks till the pre-fail threshold (50) and then below: this can explain the hd behaviour you experienced. You can configure smartmontools to self test weekly and send you an e-mail when a

Re: ibook g4 hard drive failures

What about using a live cd and smartmontools? I had a similar problem. Just 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' is enough to get lots of info about the status of the hd and its problems. In my case few sectors died but they were (probably) in the partition map... so my partition map disapperad and my partition

Re: Bluetooth on Aluminum Powerbook... and ibook?

What about ibook? I've internal bluetooth on ibook g4 1.2GHz (Oct 2004) but hcitool says nothing: # hcitool dev Devices: Yesterday I tried an external bluetooth usb adapter and it worked. Kernel 2.6.12. How can I see the internal one? TIA, Emanuele On W

Re: Hard disk change howto on pbook-12"

A friend of mine suggests this one: http://www.pbfixit.com/Guide/ Cheers, E. Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot wrote: > Hi list: > > My PBook 12" hard disk is dying and I need to change it. > > Is there somewhere a tutorial about how-to taking apart the pbook in > order to get to the hard disk? (I reme

Re: trackpad on powerbook

It happened to me once on my ibook g4: mouse didn't work. The only solution I had found (but I'm not able to reproduce since it never happened anymore) was to reset PRAM, pressing apple-alt-p-r during boot. I don't know why but it worked. Emanuele On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:40:01AM -0500, John H

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

Graham Wilson wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:58:46PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: John Goerzen wrote: ... i can't see this card ever being supported... get a USB one. i'd also be keen to hear recommendations. Is it possible to use another mini-PCI card that is supported by Linux instead of

Re: ibook vs. pbook (or ati vs. nvidia)

OK, that's exactly what I'd like to know. Thanks a lot. About your note I've just tried 'lspci' on a new ibookG4 12" and it says to be ATI (Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ (5c63)) and not nVidia. Maybe I didn't get something? As far as you said there is no hope for 12" apple laptop... Thanks again, E

ibook vs. pbook (or ati vs. nvidia)

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 w