On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 05:54, Iain Georgeson wrote: > I've just slapped Woody on a crusty old iMac. I've got most of it up, > but I've got a couple of issues with it left: > > The power button. It currently does nothing. How do I trap it? (My > lusers are unable to cope with the concept of shutting down, so it has > been on the receiving end of some not-so-gentle power-offs.) It would > be quite handy to do suspends too. Problem is, I have no idea what > packages to use, or how it all works.
I think we get a PMU message from the button, but I don't know for sure. I don't have an iMac to test. You can try reading /dev/pmu and see if you get anything relevant > apmd thinks it's on battery power (and so anacron won't fire on > bootup). Dunno how it figures that out ... > I'd like to be able to wake-it-on-LAN (from off or suspend). I assume > that's just an OpenFirmware setting. (Can OpenFirmware change the > on-chime to a penguin squawk or something?) Wake-On-Lan is possible with the proper support in the sungem driver, but that's for sleep mode, and I didn't implement support for sleep mode on those machines at this point. Actually, it may work though :) > Does this thing support DRI and GL? (I don't understand DRI much at > the best of times). The display controller is an ATI Technologies Inc > Rage 128 RL according to lspci. > > I'm adding a few extra packages: > > mplayer points out that most of it's additional (dll) codecs are i386 > only. I'm resigned to just doing without, unless you can come up with > something. > > The biggie: OpenOffice. I can't find a ppc woody backport anywhere. Is > there one? You really want testing or woody :) Ben.
