pre-newbie ibook quicksilver opengl graphics-cards sound

[thayne]

I can answer about the iBook, everything works except the built in modem.


On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 06:18 PM, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:

> At 9:48 PM +1000 9/15/02, ccos wrote:
>> hello all,
>>
>> thinking seriously about going over to linux from os x.
>> the more i learn about unix and programming the more appealing
>> this option. i've been perusing the net for a while looking for a good 
>> distro
>> for a total linux newbie, and yellow dog seems to be the one.
>>
>> i have these two machines:
>>
>> ibook ( i think it's a 2 ) 600MHz dual w/ an ATY RageM3p29s graphics 
>> card
>
> 600 MHz dual iBook?  A slip of the keyboard, surely.  :)
>
>> G4 867 (QS) w/ an NVDA GForce 2 MX card
>>
>> and these questions in regards to both machines:
>>
>> sound - how is the support for the native hardware?
>
> Output works on my hardware (G4 "Gigabit Ethernet" and G4 "Digital 
> Audio" models), but sometimes has issues.  Usually these are due to 
> applications which assume sound samples are always little-endian rather 
> than problems with the OS.  I wouldn't know about input, never having 
> even tried to use it.
>
>> are there drivers out there for multi channel cards at all?
>> for instance, in my g4 i've got a motu pci_324 and 2408MKII.
>
> I did some searching and, as far as I can tell, there is almost no 
> driver support for MOTU hardware on Linux.  The only thing I found was 
> a few Alsa drivers for older MOTU MIDI interfaces, the kind which 
> connect to Centronics parallel ports on PCs and RS422 serial on Macs.
>
>> midi - is there anything like os x integrated midi support?
>
> I wouldn't know.  But this might be a good page to find some 
> information on Linux MIDI:
>
> http://linux-sound.org
>
>> are there drivers out there for midi interfaces?
>> for instance, i've got an emagic unitor8.
>
> I found this:
>
> http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~sbartels/unitor/
>
> But it doesn't sound promising.  It describes a driver-in-progress 
> which probably would not work on a Mac (it mentions requiring UHCI, and 
> all Macs use OHCI USB rather than UHCI).  The page was last updated a 
> long time ago so it's possible that the driver got finished and the 
> page just wasn't updated to reflect that.
>
>> graphics - how well does YD support opengl and hardware acceleration.
>
> Not as well as MacOS X.
>
>> how well does it support my graphics cards.
>
> The Rage M3 (aka Rage Mobility 128) in your iBook should be OK.  In YDL 
> 2.3, I think the setup effort required to get 3D going on the R128 is 
> pretty minimal (it's been a while since I did it, but I think all I had 
> to do was edit XF86Config-4 and enable GLX etc.).
>
> The GeForce2 MX is another story. YDL does not support GL acceleration 
> on any NVidia card, and is not likely to do so any time soon, because 
> while NVidia provides Linux 3D drivers, they're only available compiled 
> for the x86 architecture, and furthermore NVidia does not provide 
> hardware specs to the open source community.
> -- Tim Seufert
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