randolf balasus <rbalasus@gmail.com> writes: >Hello I am searching for useful distribution to run linux on my >powerbook. The problem: I have tested some versions debian 3.0 kubuntu >ubuntu... >And at the last I can say the oldest was running in the best. >hibernating was working. suspend to ram all the specials are working. >But most of my used software packages are not available in this >distribution. What does /proc/cpuinfo contain about the board? I have an iBook G4 12" 1GHz, and I get: processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1066.666000MHz revision : 0.1 (pvr 8003 0101) bogomips : 73.47 timebase : 18432000 platform : PowerMac machine : PowerBook6,5 motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (iBook G4) pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld I am using Debian Etch (4.0) and used Sarge before, and things got better with the newer version. >suspend is not working >hibernating is disabled Suspend-to-ram is working fine on my iBook. I have not tried suspend-to-disk and actually don't know how I could try it out. >mighty bluetooth mouse works only sometimes >firewire is disabled I have not tried either. >cpu freq is only 500 cpufreq is working on my iBook. I can select 533MHz or 1066MHz, but I found that there is no power consumption difference when the system is idle, and not much when it is loaded, so I always have it at 1066MHz. >WLAN is not configured and not usable WLAN (Airport Extreme) does not work properly, but that seems to be a hardware problem (maybe the antenna is damaged): it works very close to an access point, but not reliably at range. >Bootpslash looks starnge. Boot splash screen works all right. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html