[slackintosh-users] Re: quick hardware status summary? slackintosh returns ;-)
- From: Jason Byrne <jbyrne1024@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:44:51 -0700
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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