new Apple iBook experience

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:25:21PM -0400, volvoguy said
> I don't expect many people have the new model yet, but if you do I
> would love to hear some experiences using Ubuntu on it. There were
> some rather substantial upgrades, like built-in Airport Express,
> faster processor (and faster bus speed I think), new video card (ATI
> Radeon 9200 w/32Mb vram), etc.).

I have a g4 iBook from...June, but I don't think they really changed
much aside from the clock speed and adding Airport by default.

The Airport Extreme does not work under Linux at all.  It uses a
Broadcom chipset which apparently has a Linux driver (in the Linksys
WRT54g, of all things), but has not been ported to PPC.  Sound and
bluetooth work great out of the box, as does ethernet and usb.  Ubuntu's
X detection sets up X to work with the Radeon 9200 just fine, even
enabling DRI.  Suspend-to-ram does not work at all[0], but "pmdisk" (kernel
suspend to disk) should work fine (at least other people say so, no luck
for me last time I tried); note this is not currently available in
default Ubuntu kernels.

-rob

[0]: there is hope:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/10/msg00049.html

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