Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-15 Thread Blake Carlson
Carlos - I just did my install on a TiBook the other day :) Unfortunately, the upgrade to unstable has been a rough road but things are looking good now. Got to get this keymap stuff taken care of .. Not sure if I'm understanding your message right, but "default=" in yaboot.conf is ref

Re: Advice on a iBook ... [OT - TiBook recommendation because you asked for it]

2001-10-15 Thread Blake Carlson
Carlos - Glad to be of help :) As far as a recommendation for a PowerBook, I have to say my TiBook is pretty nice. I went for the G4/400 model, got a ~$150 instant rebate, bought 512 MB RAM for 2x$37 and an AirPort card for $99. There are additional rebates if you want to buy things like p

Re: I'm one step away from Airport

2001-10-16 Thread Blake Carlson
I haven't been following this thread too closely, but here's how I got my airport to work (note - I'm using dummy IP addresses but your personal network should be in the range 192.168.XXX.XXX): % ifconfig -l do you see eth0 and eth1? You should :) % ifconfig eth0 down % ifconfig eth1 192.168

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-16 Thread Blake Carlson
I've seen some good discussion about the G3 vs. G4 on this thread, but you all are neglecting the rest of the system when comparing the TiBook vs. iBook2. TiBook as 100MHz bus vs. 66MHz in iBook2. This is a *big* deal. Also, the TiBook has large 1MB cache running at 200MHz vs. iBook2's 256KB ca

Re: Advice on a iBook ...

2001-10-16 Thread Blake Carlson
I just checked apple.com and words cannot describe how I feel right now since I just bought my TiBook last week. I am sooo disappointed, still like my TiBook, but I feel cheated. Do you know when these will actually be available? Sure - you can buy one now but when will you get it? -- Blake

Re: Has anyone a working XF86Config-4 for ibook2 with dri enabled?

2001-10-16 Thread Blake Carlson
I think the driver you need is "r128" and not "ati". This is what I have my driver section for TiBook: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Rage 128 M3 (Mobility)" #Option "NoAccel" #Option "SWcursor" #Option "HWcursor" #Option

Re: GConf/galeon problems solve

2001-10-16 Thread Blake Carlson
While we're on the subject Is there a good APT source to get galeon and mozilla or am I on my own? They're in x86/unstable but I didn't see them right away in powerpc/unstable. I'm currently *lame* and am using the "http://http.us.debian.org/debian";'ish lines in my sources.list. Is the

Re: Upgrade to 2.6.16-ben0, PCMCIA broken

2001-11-29 Thread Blake Carlson
My Airport card is working just fine in my TiBook 1st gen (debian/unstable) with 2.4.16-pre1-ben0 if it makes you feel any better/worse??? -- Blake Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I upgraded to 2.4.16-ben0 on my powerbook titanium 1st gen running Debian unstable. Now my PCMCIA Aironet card no long w

Re: opengl hardware acceleration on ibook2

2001-12-14 Thread Blake Carlson
Did you try 16 bit mode? -- Blake Dominic Buchstaller wrote: Hi I was wondering how far hardware acceleration is implemented on ibook2. I was able to compile my 2.4.17-pre8-ben0 kernel agpgart, Apple UniNorth and DRI (ATI Rage 128) support. The acceleration results have been quite poor so far