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.
On 6 Oct, 2011, at 11:21 AM, John Ames 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,
I am running debian sid with stumpwm (used gnome before) on the 12 inch ibook
g4 late 2004 which is a 1.2mhz. it runs fine as a nice portable laptop and they
seem reasonably cheap these days.
http://support.apple.com/kb/sp68
it is the ibook version of your powerbook and it is very nice with a
For what it's worth, there is a dedicated XFCE LXDE install CD for
PPC in both stable and testing. Your mileage may vary but I've had
better luck using the stable ISO which -- if you choose the advanced
option -- will also allow you to choose to install a system from
either stable, testing, or
On 10/6/11, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote:
Also, default video looks pretty
horrible on the Go5200 - i think i'm only seeing 256 colors though i haven't
investigated further.
Hmm. I've noticed something like that on my G5, but I hadn't gotten
around to looking at it; looked like it
Yeah, there's a couple different bug reports for this chipset
reporting bad video relating to color depth, and they've been around
since 2009 and 2010 :/ I think I might have to go with the 15 after
all, based on this...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19714
Oh, that's in nv though, not nouveau...what was your G4 running?
On 10/6/11, John Ames commodorej...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, there's a couple different bug reports for this chipset
reporting bad video relating to color depth, and they've been around
since 2009 and 2010 :/ I think I might have
if you get the 15, make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it
someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot.
mine is 1.5 ghz early '05, its running LXDE stable well enough, faster than
OSX leopard. My main gripe besides the RAM issue is the hard drive
replacement is
On 10/6/11, Brian Morris cymraeg...@gmail.com wrote:
if you get the 15, make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it
someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot.
Oh, naturally. I had both a 1GB DDR stick (for the 12) and 2x 1GB
DDR2 sticks (for the 15) on hand anyway, so
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