Warren,

I have a similar ibook running YDL6 (slightly faster), 2D accel
is working fine for video, desktop windows, etc...

I have not tried 3D.

-Bill

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:43:56 -0800, Warren Nagourney
<warren@phys...> wrote:
> Thanks, Derick. I didn't see anything about video acceleration. It  
> said that there are "no outstanding issues"; this means that video  
> works, but is not necessarily accelerated. From my earlier posts over  
> the last two years (first about my PB 17 and later about my PS3), you  
> might have concluded that I am allergic to slow and "choppy" video.
>
> cheers,
>
> Warren Nagourney
>
> On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
>
>> Hi Warren:
>>
>> According to this page:
>>
>> http://us.fixstars.com/support/hardware/apple-ibook.shtml
>>
>> You shouldn't have any problems running YDL 6 on it.  As far as
>> wireless follow the instructions here:
>>
>> http://us.fixstars.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.x/airport-extreme.shtml
>>
>> All the best...
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently inherited a supposedly broken ibook G4 800 MHz (from my
>>> stepdaughter, who can afford a newer computer) and am thinking of
>>> installing YDL 6 on it. The machine actually works fine and has 640
>>> Mb of ram. My questions are:
>>>
>>> Is there any video acceleration to speak of? It has a Radeon 9200 and
>>> most queries to the net return with the claim that there is no 3D
>>> acceleration. Is this still true? (I would probably skip it if so - I
>>> have enough annoyance with slow video on my PS3 linux system).
>>>
>>> Is WIFI supported? (I have an airport extreme card).
>>>
>>> If anyone has tried it, does it run well?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Warren Nagourney
>>>
>>>
>>>
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