Introduction
I installed Debian on this shiny Laptop (Apple Powerbook G4 12 inch). I succeeded primarily with the help of the excellent document by Matthias Schmidt. I will only list the differences and some in-depth notes for my installation in this.
Experimental X11
The necessary X-Windows distribution (4.3.0) is still in the experimental Debian distribution. You can configure your APT sources appropriately. Add this line to it:
deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian/ ../project/experimental main non-free contrib
Then apt-get update and upgrade the X-Window system packages.
Keyboard layout
The Swiss German keyboard layout on X-Windows took me a bit of time to figure out. Thanks to a mailinglist posting by Markus Frauenfelder I got the solution. In case the above link should die, I'll repeat the information here.
The XF86Config-4 must contain the following lines:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
Option "XkbLayout" "de_CH"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Additionally you need this .Xmodmap file. Put it in your home directory and the a line xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap to your .xsession file.