I am running Apple PowerBook G4. This was working when I using Xubuntu and also when I was running the MATE desktop when I installed Jesse. It was just slowing down my system so I moved to LXDE as my desktop. bellow are my logs.
rican-linux@debian-ppc:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 833.333000MHz revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102) bogomips : 36.86 timebase : 18432000 platform : PowerMac model : PowerBook5,6 machine : PowerBook5,6 motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15") pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld Memory : 2048 MB rican-linux@debian-ppc:~$ uname -a Linux debian-ppc 3.16-2-powerpc #1 Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) ppc GNU/Linux rican-linux@debian-ppc:~$ rican-linux@debian-ppc:~$ dmesg |grep device [ 0.000229] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 0.001498] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 0.030250] device-tree: Duplicate name in PowerPC,G4@0, renamed to "l2-cache#1" [ 0.045852] vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:00:10.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=mem,locks=none [ 0.062275] pci 0001:10:19.0: Can't enable PCI device, BIOS handoff failed. [ 0.062296] pci 0001:10:1a.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 0.114960] pci 0001:10:1b.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 0.170924] pci 0001:10:1b.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 0.226921] pci 0001:10:1b.2: enabling device (0004 -> 0006) [ 0.988432] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [ 2.034168] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x53 [ 2.123200] pata-pci-macio 0002:24:0d.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 3.160097] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 3.168453] input: PMU as /devices/virtual/input/input0 [ 3.492861] b43-pci-bridge 0001:10:12.0: enabling device (0004 -> 0006) [ 3.503014] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 3.529009] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0001:10:12.0 [ 3.534501] firewire_ohci 0002:24:0e.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 3.539111] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002 [ 3.539116] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 [ 3.586970] firewire_ohci 0002:24:0e.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0 [ 3.614863] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001 [ 3.614873] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 [ 3.690648] usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001 [ 3.690659] usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 [ 3.766567] usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001 [ 3.766573] usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 [ 3.950986] usb 2-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci [ 4.089414] firewire_core 0002:24:0e.0: created device fw0: GUID 001124fffe84c4ea, S800 [ 4.167986] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1000 [ 4.167995] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 4.318962] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci [ 4.493965] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=020e [ 4.493975] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 7.690753] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 12.915824] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [ 13.274941] usb 2-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-pci [ 13.728988] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=8205 [ 13.729000] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 13.804872] input: appletouch as /devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:1a.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1/input/input1 [ 13.978699] input: Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad as /devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:1a.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:05AC:020E.0003/input/input2 [ 13.984661] input: Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad as /devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:1a.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/0003:05AC:020E.0004/input/input3 [ 15.052443] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 47.274555] input: Mouseemu virtual keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input4 [ 47.277738] input: Mouseemu virtual mouse as /devices/virtual/input/input5 rican-linux@debian-ppc:~$ On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Michael Schmitz <schmitz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > what hardware exactly does this happen on? Please provide a copy of your > boot log detailing the devices detected. > > Note that the existence of /dev/adb does not necessarily imply presence of > ADB support by your hardware, or the presence of a trackpad device on the > ADB bus in particular. > > Regards, > > Michael Schmitz > > > Package: powerpc-utils >> Version: 1.1.3-25 >> Severity: normal >> File: /sbin/trackpad >> Tags: d-i >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> For some reason I am getting this error when I try to enable tap to click >> using >> the trackpad command. >> >> rican-linux@debian-ppc:~/Documents$ sudo trackpad tap >> [sudo] password for rican-linux: >> writing /dev/adb: No such device or address >> >> However I do have that device... >> >> rican-linux@debian-ppc:~/Documents$ ls -l /dev/adb >> crw------- 1 root root 56, 0 Nov 24 21:44 /dev/adb >> rican-linux@debian-ppc:~/Documents$ >> >> >> >> -- System Information: >> Debian Release: jessie/sid >> APT prefers testing-updates >> APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') >> Architecture: powerpc (ppc) >> >> Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-powerpc >> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> >> Versions of packages powerpc-utils depends on: >> ii libc6 2.19-13 >> >> powerpc-utils recommends no packages. >> >> powerpc-utils suggests no packages. >> >> -- no debconf information >> > >