Subject: Re: Newbie question- G3 powerbook
From: Nathan Buck (nathb@efn.org)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 01:43:13 MDT
x wrote:
> How can I tell whether my Powerbook is a "wallstreet" or "lombard" or
> whatever, and how do I know YDL will support my USB mouse?
Lombard's have the "bronze" keyboard that is semi see-through, or more
accurately semi-opaque (but that just sound confusing). If your
keyboard is bronze or brownish looking, you be owning a lombard (also
refered to by the year, '99)
As far as USB mice, mine works great...
...except for a weird exception where if I wake it up from sleep mode
without the mouse attached, I can't get it to recognize the mouse until
I reboot (which I'm sure theres a way around -- if anyone knows, I
wouldn't mind a word on how to reset the usb drivers in the 2.2.19k OOTB
kernel).
I dig how it runs on my lombard. I highly recommend 128MB memory
though. Running at 64MB was tolerable, but once you got Gnome running,
a few mozilla windows open and Gimp, you're diggin heavy into swap space
and swap space on a laptop harddrive is about as quick as a EB Customer
service rep.
Nathan.
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