Stuff about my new post-February 2005 powerbook.
Please also look at the FAQ.
Links
http://joh.deworks.net/powerbook/ (about Ubuntu)
http://www.popies.net/atp/ (appletouch – recommended touchpad driver)
http://www.popies.net/ams/ (apple motion sensor driver for linux, based on the specification linked above)
Kernel
usually the latest wireless-2.6 from git + patches from http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/
hardware
working/tested
- Movie DVD playback works only after setting the region code, regardless of whether libdvdcss is installed or not. I had OSX set it, but regionset(1) should work fine.
- USB 1.1 and 2.0
- keyboard (including eject and power buttons with recent pbbuttonsd)
- trackpad (with appletouch driver)
- gbit ethernet (tested in gbit mode)
- temperature / fan control
- battery status
- sound (turn the PCM mixer up to about 70% and use master to control everything)
bluetooth (usb device; see this page)
- pcmcia (tested with a CF disk and a cardbus wireless card)
- firewire (external HD works [reported by Sven Kissner], powermac in target-disk mode works)
- attaching a second monitor (buggy initialisation code in linux means that with a second DVI screen on capable powerbooks you have to boot OS X and then reboot into linux for it to actually work!)
- keyboard backlight (needs i2c-dev kernel support)
- acceleration sensors (with ams driver)
suspend to ram (even with echo mem > /sys/power/state after my latest powerpc-suspend-N patchset)
wireless (BCM4306; http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/)
suspend to disk (but not when DRI with AGP is enabled in X, note that DRI with PCI freezes the system sometimes when scrolling)
- 3d hardware acceleration (I've played neverball with the acceleration sensor for input, great!)
not working
- modem (Motorola SM56 i2s softmodem)