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Home Forums HCL Reviews Tutorials Articles Register Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read   LinuxQuestions.org > HCL > Laptops > Apple Apple ibook G4 12" 2005 (1.2GHz, 768MB, 80GBHD, Combidrive) User Name Remember Me? Password Search · Register · Submit New Product ·   Apple ibook G4 12" 2005 (1.2GHz, 768MB, 80GBHD, Combidrive) Reviews Views Date product posted 0 2600 08-25-2005 Recommended By Average Price Average Rating No recommendations None indicated None indicated Description: This laptop works fine for me under ubuntu linux (hoary) Kernel 2.6.10, Xorg6.8.2, Gnome 2.10 Hoary 5.04 PPC installs with following features working flawlessly: HDD, CD, CDburner, DVD (without cdss obviously), network, function buttons, powermanagement (but for sleep at this stage) microphone, USB ports, display (no 3d at this stage) Bluetooth requires the bluez drivers and then works fine Twigging xorg.conf allows 3d acceleration: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 (RV250)" Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:0:16:0" Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "Mergedfb" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "radeon-clone" Driver "radeon" Option "DDCMode" "true" Option "CloneMode" "1024x768" Option "MetaModes" "1280x854-1024x768 1024x768-1024x768 800x600-800x600" Option "CRT2HSync" "31.5-80" Option "CRT2VRefresh" "56.3-75" EndSection Switching on AGP Mode 4 in Xorg.conf also allowed sleep and waking up with X intact. Sound was tinny and poor initially but improved by throwing out the sound module snd_powermac and replacing it with dmasound_pmac in /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.d/alsabase Firewire support for external harddrives works after installing relevant packes out of the ubuntu repositories Keywords: ibook apple laptop G4 12" combidrive bluetooth Airport Extreme /sbin/lspci output: lspci output: 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV250 5c63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+] (rev 01) 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 0001:10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB 0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI 0002:20:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100 0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire (rev 81) 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80) lsusb output Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:8203 Apple Computer, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:34 PM. Contact Us - Advertising Info - Rules - LQ Merchandise - Donations - Contributing Member - LQ Sitemap - LinuxQuestions.org - Home

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