After a long period of stability running Sid with 2.4.23 on my PBG4 12" 867MHz, I've finally made the move to 2.6.9-mh3 with Pander's config. I followed the instructions on Pander's page (patching, etc.) and everything's fine...
Except that I'm back to a problem similar to I had when I first got this Powerbook: when I try to shutdown (which I must do often since I can't sleep), once it logs out of Gnome the screen goes dead but the power stays on, and it doesn't shut down. Yesterday from a Gnome session I tried alt-F1 to switch to the console and again the screen went dead: so the real problem is that I can't go back to the console, and that apparently trying to go back to the console produces some sort of crash (seeing as how I shouldn't have to intervene in any way once I tell it to shut down, but it doesn't manage to shut down). The last time I had this problem it was non-fatal (the machine would manage to shut down) and the solution was an XFree package tweaked for NVidia. Does such a package exist now? Should I be changing something with my XF86Config (which has been problem-free for almost a year)? Does one of the rivafb patches at http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/ fix this problem? In a search of the archives I could find only discussion of backlight adjustment, which gloriously works. If anyone wants to see my XF86Config, it's at http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/XF86Config-4 Thanks O. On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:54:48 +0200, Pander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally I got a good buil for 2.6.8.1 tuned for PowerBook G4. For more > info, see > http://home.zonnet.nl/vgeloven/powerbook-g4-linux-kernel-configuration/ > > Regards, > > Pander > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
