04-21-2008
You would be better off either using the provided Apple GUI, or getting that PC laptop and installing some flavor of Unix on it. Trying to disable the Apple GUI to run another window manager on the Mac would be just as difficult. It is not supported by Apple, either.
If you really want the Apple hardware, you could partition the Mac's drive and install multiple OS's on the machine. Support for various hardware functionality would depend on the particular OS + drivers that you install.
The only one button anything that Apple ships now is the trackpad button. Multiple button functionality is supported through using two fingers on the trackpad surface while clicking.
my 2 cents.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ift-extract
I2M19058(1) GNU Info I2M19058(1)
NAME
ift-extract.info - ift-extract.info
Built-in iSight firmware extractor and patcher
ift-extract extract the Built-in iSight firmware from Apple driver and patch it to avoid some bugs in it. The firmware is then ready to get
loaded into the chip using ift-load.
* Menu:
Finding the Apple driver: see "Driver"
Command line options: see "Options"
See also "Copying"
1 Finding the Apple driver
ift-extract extract Built-in iSight firmware from Apple iSight driver. This driver is located at
/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport on your Mac OS X
root partition.
There is several version of this driver depending on driver version or host architecture (PowerPC or x86). Thus, ift-extract must determine
know the variant of the driver in order to properly extract the firmware.
Any AppleUSBVideoSupport file starting with those shipped with iMac G5 iSight must work. If not, please report unknown AppleUSBVideoSupport
at bugreport mail address with machine type and OS X version.
2 Command line options
`-a' `--apple-driver' Apple driver filename where to extract the firmware.
`-d' `--output-directory' The directory where to output the firmware. Defaults to /lib/firmware.
`-f' `--output-filename' The output firmware name. Defaults to isight.fw
`-?' `--help' Shows option help and quit.
Since ift-extract defaults to output the firmware to /lib/firmware/isight.fw, ensure you have the right to do so.
3 Copying
isight-firmware-tools is a project developped by A~Xtienne Bersac based on the work of Ronald S. Bultje, Johannes Berg and Ivan N. Zlatev.
This manual has been written by A~Xtienne Bersac.
Copyright (C) 2007 A~Xtienne Bersac <bersace@gmail.com>
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