* Contact: RickBuitenman * Make: Apple * Brand: Powerbook * Model: G4 / 1.25Ghz / Superdrive / 60Gb (*1) * Website: http://www.apple.com == Current Issues == * No support for Airport Extreme (*2) * No support for svideo-out (*3) * Some wake-up from sleep issues (*4) * No keyboard backlight (*9) == Hardware details == || || in Hoary (current stable)? || in Breezy (current development)? || || Installation works? || Untested || Yes || ||<-4 tablewidth="75%"> '''Hardware Information''' || ||<-4> '''Screen & Monitors''' || ||<|2> '''Device''' ||<-2> '''Works?''' ||<|2> '''Bug #''' || || in Hoary (current stable)? || in Breezy (current development)? || || Screen || Untested || Yes || || || Correct resolution? || Untested || Yes || || || Correct refresh rate? || Untested || Yes || || || 3D Acceleration || Untested || Untested || || || External monitor works? || Untested || Yes (*5) || || || External monitor - mirrors || Untested || Yes (*5) || || || External monitor - extend desktop || Untested || Yes (*5) || || ||<-4> '''Power Management''' || || Battery detected? || Untested || Yes || || || Hibernates? || Untested || Untested || || || Sleep || Untested || Yes || || || Dim monitor on battery || Untested (*6) || Untested || || || Blank monitor on inactivity || Untested || Yes || || || Lid Close || Untested || Yes (Sleep) || || || Cpu frequency scaling || Untested (*6) || Yes || || ||<-4> '''Sound''' || || Sound works? || Untested || Yes || || || Correct volume? || Untested || Yes (*7) || || || Hardware volume switch || Untested || N/A || || || Headphone jack || Untested || Yes || || || Mic jack || Untested || Untested || || ||<-4> '''Networking''' || || Wired NIC || Untested || Yes || || || Wireless NIC || Untested || No (unsupported) || || || PCMCIA NIC || Untested || Yes (*8) || || || Firewire || Untested (*6) || Yes || || || Bluetooth || Untested (*6) || Yes (*10) || || || Modem || Untested || Untested || || || Infrared || Untested || N/A || ||<-4> '''Touchpad & Mice''' || || Touchpad || Untested || Yes || || || Touchpad - Doubletap = double click || Untested (*6) || Untested || || || Touchpad - Scroll down side || Untested || N/A || || || External mouse - USB || Untested || Yes || || || External mouse - Serial || Untested || N/A || || ||<-4> '''Docking Station/Port Replicator''' || || AC through replicator || Untested || N/A || || || USB || Untested || N/A || || || Serial || Untested || N/A || || || Parallel || Untested || N/A || || || External Monitor - VGA || Untested || N/A || || || External Monitor - DVI || Untested || N/A || || || Modem || Untested || N/A || || || NIC || Untested || N/A || || || PS/2 || Untested || N/A || || ||<-4> '''Additional Hardware''' || || Fingerprint reader || Untested || N/A || || || CD/DVD drive || Untested || Yes || || || PCMCIA cards || Untested || Yes || || || Parallel Ports || Untested || N/A || || || Card reader(s) || Untested || N/A || || ## Add or remove keys as needed for your laptop. Fill out action ||<-6 tablewidth="75%"> '''Function and other keys''' || ||<|2> '''Fn key''' ||<|2> '''Operation''' ||<|2> '''Keycode''' ||<-2> '''Works?''' ||<|2> Bug # || || in Hoary (current stable)? || in Breezy (current development)? || || Fn+Space || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+Esc || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F1 || || || Untested || Brightness Dn || || || Fn+F2 || || || Untested || Brightness Up || || || Fn+F3 || || || Untested || Mute || || || Fn+F4 || || || Untested || Sound Dn || || || Fn+F5 || || || Untested || Sound Up || || || Fn+F6 || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F7 || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F8 || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F9 || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F10 || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F11 || || || Untested || Untested || || || Fn+F12 || || || Untested || Right Mouse Click || || || Fn+1 || || || Untested || Eject || || || Fn+2 || || || Untested || Untested || || ||<-6> '''Other special keys''' || ||<|2> '''Key''' ||<|2> '''Operation''' ||<|2> '''Keycode''' ||<-2> '''Works?''' ||<|2> Bug # || || in Hoary (current stable)? || in Breezy (current development)? || || Key || || || Untested || Untested || || === Notes === ## Add any notes here * Previous Linux on this laptop was Gentoo. Some stuff that worked there is still untested with Breezy, but should work. * Using the Sleep-LED as HD-LED is not default on Breezy. Gonna try to make it work if and when I have a good reason to recompile the kernel... This is a very handy (and cool) little feature. * Had customized Gentoo / pbbuttonsd /gtkpbbuttons to give visual feedback on brightness/sound/eject (OSX-style). Breezy only gives OSD-feedback on sound. Installed gtkpbuttons, which works like a charm, but now I can't seem to get rid of the old Breezy/Gnome OSD feedback. * Default changes in brightness and sound-level in Breezy is not very smooth. Response seems to be sluggish. Some tweaking of pbbuttons may be required. ---- * 1) 80Gb now, since the harddisk died. Shouldn't make any difference. * 2) Broadcom won't release specs for the chipset used in Airport Extreme. There is an experimental workaround via MOL (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365647.html), and a reverse engineering effort going on (http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/). * 3) Proprietary Ati-drivers are x86 only, Xorg drivers don't support tv-out. * 4) Basically two issues: * '''Don't plug in or unplug USB-devices while it's sleeping.''' It will most likely crash on wake-up. * Screen is sometimes scrambled on wakeup, or doesn't seem to sync properly. Putting it back to sleep and waking up again usually solves the issue (sometimes it takes a few tries). No reproducable cause. ''Note: Had this baby crash on wake-up three times in two weeks without any obvious cause. This was extremely rare with my old Gentoo install, something to keep an eye on.'' * 5) All works fine with MergedFB. D-Sub works normally, DVI only seems to work after a reboot with DVI-cable plugged in. What's more annoying, it also requires a reboot after wake up from sleep. * 6) Stuff that worked with Gentoo, not expecting any trouble here. * 7) Some tweaking with alsamixer may be required. * 8) SMC EZ Connect g SMC2835W with prism54 chipset. Worked out-of-the-box. * 9) Keyboard backlight worked fine for over a year on Gentoo, not working out-of-the-box on Breezy. Tweaking /etc/pbbuttons.conf sofar hasn't worked, pbbuttons doesn't acknowledge that this machine has keyboard backlighting, so it's probably a kernel/module issue. * 10) Don't really have a decent bluetooth device to test with, except my totally incompatible phone. But it seems to work, and others report working bluetooth on similar AlBooks. ---- At this moment there are two other pre-2005 15" Powerbooks, the 1.0 and 1.33 and Ghz, in the LapTopTestingTeam that are virtually identical. As somebody suggested, /proc/cpuinfo is the most obvious way to identify the various versions of the Alu-Powerbook. So here's mine: {{{ processor : 0 cpu : 7447/7457, altivec supported clock : 1249MHz revision : 0.1 (pvr 8002 0101) bogomips : 831.58 machine : PowerBook5,2 motherboard : PowerBook5,2 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified memory : 1024MB pmac-generation : NewWorld }}}