On Aug 20 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 13:52 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Anyone got any idea for either of this problems? Thanks in > > advance! > > Your kernel is not configured with suspend-to-disk included, but I > can't recommend doing so either.
Hi. I can't comment o Gerfried's problems, but I have two things which are severely annoying in a recent Debian install: * suspend to RAM only works with kernel 2.6.21 (I tried the one that is shipped with Debian). Upgrading to the 2.6.22 (which is in unstable) or compiling my own 2.6.23-rc3 (taken from kernel.org) doesn't let me sleep: it unfortunately doesn't seem (at least with the 23-rc3 kernel) related to X, since I booted into single user mode and still couldn't sleep. All that I got were some green letters saying that the computer were going to sleep on a console/framebuffer and then, immediately, I saw that the ethernet got upped again, the ide drive was reconfigured with DMA etc, like if I waked up the computer (but I didn't, of course). * Since my iBook is an iBook G3, I am more or less desperate to get any Operating system that is reasonably comfortable for typing things with LaTeX and using Debian would be the best. Ubuntu is a second option, but as I already talked with Gerfried privately, the Ubuntu installation just dies at the initramfs stages, which, as I was reminded on IRC, is just a consequence of them not caring for PowerPC anymore. :-( For this reason alone, I want to help the PowerPC port of Debian to be as much in shape as I can if I get past the New Maintainers' process. MacOS X as a very low third option, since it's X system sucks badly, especially because it's connections to, say, Debian systems with X forwarding are *soooo* slow compared to connections made if I had Debian installed. But the problem that prevents me from working with Debian on this computer is that I don't have wired access on the university and I only have a D-Link DWL-122G USB dongle. I tried to install the modules for it from the rt2x00 project, but the best thing that I got when I did an "ip link set rausb0 up" was a tremendous amount of CPU usage. :-( I can't wait for these drivers to be more included into the Linus kernel, as more people would take care of endianness things. Whew! What a journey. :-( And unfortunately, Mac parts here are not common (I would be willing to work with just a first generation Airport card, but I can't find it here were I live). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
