recommendation linux-distri for powerbook 800MHZ

randolf balasus <rbalasus RemoveThis @gmail.com> writes:
>Hello I am searching for useful distribution to run linux on my
>powerbook. The problem: I have tested some versions debian 3.0 kubuntu
>ubuntu...
>And at the last I can say the oldest was running in the best.
>hibernating was working. suspend to ram all the specials are working.
>But most of my used software packages are not available in this
>distribution.

What does /proc/cpuinfo contain about the board? I have an iBook G4
12" 1GHz, and I get:

processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 1066.666000MHz
revision : 0.1 (pvr 8003 0101)
bogomips : 73.47
timebase : 18432000
platform : PowerMac
machine : PowerBook6,5
motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (iBook G4)
pmac flags : 0000001b
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld

I am using Debian Etch (4.0) and used Sarge before, and things got
better with the newer version.

>suspend is not working
>hibernating is disabled

Suspend-to-ram is working fine on my iBook. I have not tried
suspend-to-disk and actually don't know how I could try it out.

>mighty bluetooth mouse works only sometimes
>firewire is disabled

I have not tried either.

>cpu freq is only 500

cpufreq is working on my iBook. I can select 533MHz or 1066MHz, but I
found that there is no power consumption difference when the system is
idle, and not much when it is loaded, so I always have it at 1066MHz.

>WLAN is not configured and not usable

WLAN (Airport Extreme) does not work properly, but that seems to be a
hardware problem (maybe the antenna is damaged): it works very close
to an access point, but not reliably at range.

>Bootpslash looks starnge.

Boot splash screen works all right.

- anton
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