HCL/Laptops/Apple

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Hardware Compatibility List - Laptops main page Acer - Apple - Asus - Compaq - Dell - Digital - ECS - Everex - Fujitsu - Gateway - Hitachi - Higrade - HP - IBM/Lenovo - Medion - Micron - Mitac - Mitsubishi - NEC - Panasonic - Samsung - Sony - Toshiba - Zenith - Other

Model	SUSE Linux version	Hardware Support							Remark:
		Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power Management	Other
PowerBook G3	10.0 (PPC)								Issues
PowerBook G4	10.0 (PPC)
PowerBook G4 (Titanium II)	10.2 (PPC)							Keyboard:	Display works but Radeon LY cannot be configured. No 3D accel.
iBook G3	10.0 (PPC)							CD eject key:	Tested with 10.0 final Issues and iBook G3
	10.2 (PPC)								Tested with 10.2 final See iBook G3 10.2
	10.3 (PPC)						see iBook G3 10.3	CD eject key:	Tested with 10.3 final See iBook G3 10.3
iBook G4	10.0 (PPC)
	10.2 (PPC)							CD eject key:	Tested with 10.2 final. Wireless works with closed source firmware See here
Macbook	10.3 (x86)				Madwifi			CD eject key: iSight:	Tested with 10.3 final Xgl works!
Macbook	11.0 (x86)		(update ALSA!)		Madwifi			CD eject key: iSight:	Tested with 11.0 KDE 4.1 LiveCD (installed) + updates
Macbook Pro	10.2 (x86)				madwifi SVN				Tested with 10.2 GM GRUB boot from root Xgl works MBR-partition table

Legend:

Works to some extent

Does not work

Not Tested

Not Applicable

iBook G3

The iBook G3 has no Wireless or Bluetooth hardware built-in. A Wireless card is available as an add-on hence untested.

iBook G3 10.0

Power Management

If closed at runtime, it enters into sleep mode. However waking up does not work (e.g. keyboard does not respond). It answers pings, but does not accept ssh connections.

iBook G3 10.2

Power Management

Serious issues. For example, closing the lid while the GDM login screen is displayed, crashes the system with sig 11. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226081, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226427, and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222045
Workaround: Uninstall the powersave package.

iBook G3 10.3

Power Management

Serious issues. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=305154

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/HEAD/ppc/kernel-default.rpm as of 2008-01-09 seems to fix this bug.

Macbook

10.3

Sound

Works out of the box.

iSight

Works out of the box. "uvcvideo" kernel driver included in openSUSE.

Graphics

XGL & Compiz Desktop Effects work very fast (compared to 10.2) with bundled compiz 0.5.4.

Backlight

Works out of the box.

Power Management

Everything works (lid, battery, etc.). Suspend to ram works (even with Desktop Effects) but only if the X server started correctly on the first try at boot. If you got a "gdm was unable to start your X server, retry" text screen, suspend to ram fails due to issues in the "intel" graphics driver.

Add "ath_pci" to /etc/pm/config in SUSPEND_MODULES to make wifi work after suspend to ram.

Sensors

Works out of the box. However, new kernel has an improved applesmc driver for non-Pro Macbooks.

Bootloader

GRUB or LILO can be installed only AFTER the installation as the MBR partition table gets "cleared" during setup. refit's gptsync tool then booting into the installed system helped.

Bluetooth

Works out of the box.

IR Remote

Works out of the box. lirc now suppports it using the "macmini" driver.

Input (Touchpad/Keyboard)

Works out of the box. Use the synaptics driver for the mouse to have two-finger scrolling and two-finger right click like in Mac OS.

11.0

Sound

Everything works. Need to update alsa first ?

iSight

Not tested.

Graphics

KWin (KDE4) effects work out of the box and pretty fast.

Backlight

Works out of the box.

Power Management

Not tested.

Sensors

Not tested.

Bootloader

GRUB or LILO can be installed only AFTER the installation as the MBR partition table gets "cleared" during setup. refit's gptsync tool then booting into the installed system helped.

Bluetooth

Not tested

IR Remote

Not tested

Input (Touchpad/Keyboard)

Works out of the box. Use the synaptics driver for the mouse to have two-finger scrolling and two-finger right click like in Mac OS.

See also: POWER@SUSE (the POWER and PPC main page)