[slackintosh-users] Re: quick hardware status summary? slackintosh returns ;-)

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:25:09PM +0200, Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen wrote:
> Hello Jason,
> 
> 
> Jason Byrne wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Nice to see slackintosh alive & kicking again...
> >
> >A few questions... 
> >
> >How well does the latest generation of iBooks or Powerbooks work in
> >Linux PPC land these days?
> >
> > 
> >
> I have iBook G4 (the "new" one with 1,42GHz) , which works fine (Ok you 
> have to path the kernel for sound an trackpad).
> 
> >Video... accelerated?  Radeon 9550 Mobility support?  I remember Michel
> >Danzer (Debian) was doing stuff for PPC DRI/3D a while back... haven't
> >checked status lately.
> >
> > 
> >
> Video worked, accelerated (?)

Ok... what kind of FPS numbers do you get from glxgears?  IIRC, I had
something close to 1000 FPS... nothing too amazing, but a lot better
than no acceleration @ 200-300 FPS w/out DRI/DRM working for you.

> [other hardware/works details... greatly appreciated]
> ...

Thanks for the encouraging details... I'm fine with patching kernels,
drivers, development code, etc... just wanted to confirm a couple of
'works for me' stories floating around... enough to motivate a
purchase.

- Jason

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