discuss: IBook G4 howto
Subject:
Re: IBook G4 howto
From:
Rahul Sundaram ####@####.####
Date:
3 May 2005 17:30:21 -0000
Message-Id: <4277B52A.5050109@redhat.com>
Sébastien FRANÇOIS wrote:
>http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html
>
>It was reviewed in january this year, information in it will only fluctuate
>for some advanced features such as suspending to disk. I have not tried it
>yet, I will take time to document it on the process. It will probably take a
>few months to be fully implemented in a definitive way whereas the document's
>current content has been tested for more than a year now.
>
>Thanks
>seb
>
Ok. doing a technical review of this requires an Apple ibook which is
not available to me. If anyone is in this list has one and is willing
to do the review please let me know. If not, Sébastien, could you get
someone external to LDP to work on this and post the results to this list?.
Add a audience section to this document and suggest that its targeted at
advanced users only since this requires several patches, rebuilds and
manual interventions
A quick glance through the documents reveals a large amount of content
written from your a first person perspective. You should revise all of
them to present the relevant information formally
For example,
"I use *gnome-session* along with *gnome-panel* and *sawfish*,
Installing *nautilus* will give you desktop icons with a basic Debian
wallpaper."
This is typically information not required by the end user. You can
remove them.
"
Mirko wrote to me saying he got it to work using pegasos-dev-sources
(there is currently no debian package for it) and the following patch
<http://gate.crashing.org/%7Ebenh/albook-ibookg4-sleep-5.diff>. You can
try to use a newer version patch
<http://gate.crashing.org/%7Ebenh/albook-ibookg4-sleep-7.diff>.
More to come as soon as I will have taken time to get it to work here
:D" can be changed into
Suspend to RAM requires source level patches since Debian packages are
not available for it yet. You can follow that by the instructions to add
these patches. For kernel rebuild refer to official documents where
available instead of them documenting them redundantly. If Debian doesnt
have this information documented, you can use the following document as
a reference
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html
"I found some quickly usable wallpapers in *kdewallpapers*, I also
really like this one: http://members.a1.net/star886/Debian-Tux.jpg." can
be changed into
KDE wall papers (link) contains a good number of wall papers to enhance
your desktop. For example [link]
Add references where appropriate, as an example
"Proceed with a regular Debian installation" could have a link to the
Debian installation manual.
Replace IRC chat dumps such as these
http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto.html#toc4.6
with the actual information gathered from the chat in a formal manner.
Organise references into sections
http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-10.html#ss10.3
This might be a useful reference to add to the document
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&desktop=All&architecture=powerpc&status=Active
Please revise and post to this list for further feedback
Thanks
regards
Rahul
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