Hi, Niklaus Giger writes:
> Thanks for your great work. I just downloaded and installed it on > my Powerbook 1 GHz Alu. It works fine (at least for 15 minutes). Thanks for your feedback. > Sound does not work (but didn't before neither). Is this with alsa or with dmasound? > - Consider renaming it NEWS.Debian.powerpc.gz to mark it as PowerPC > specific. Or symlink it it NEWS.powerpc. It was called NEWS.Debian.gz because apt-listchanges supposedly displays the news in a prominent way. > - Tell how to remake the ramdisk. (I uninstalled and reeinstalled the > kernel-image) The command is `mkinitrd -o /initrd.img'. If you are running a different version, add the release, as in 'mkinitrd -o initrd.img 2.6.5-powerpc'. In fact, I used this command a couple of times during testing, I will add a remark to the NEWS.Debian file. > - Tell which hotplug agents are supported? Tell which packages are to > install. e.g. apt-get install hotplug. But as I had hotplug installed I > progressed without to much hesitation. All of them (usbmgr, murasaki, hotplug) should work. > - Why do you not install a dependency for one of the supported > hotplug agents? The kernel works nicely without a hotplug agent installed. And even if you need to load the modules for a USB keyboard in order to have console access (which is the reason for this section), you do not need a hotplug agent, because you can use the initrd or /etc/modules. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!