On Sat, May 10 2008, at 10:26 +0200, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: > Hello all, and sorry for reviving this old thread.
As you address more than just me, I'll try to CC the Debian powerpc list ... I hope this is OK ... :) - for this to work I changed the "In-Reply-To" header in this email ... let's see how lucky I am with it ... :) ... And Sorry if this isn't exactly the standard way ... > > I've just recently dist-upgraded again, and installed the 2.5.25-1 > kernel in my iBook G4 (mid 2005): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux sputnik 2.6.25-1-powerpc #1 Mon Apr 28 15:21:27 UTC 2008 ppc GNU/Linux > > The appletouch bug is still there. Has anybody found a way around it, > or a way to fix it? > > Wolfgang: Sorry for not trying your kernel back then --- i got tangled > in busy life, and since the older kernel (2.6.18-5) worked more or > less fine (the wifi worked just barely, and that is what gets me > trying to make the switch to 2.6.25) I kept going on it. > > Could you upload the kernel again somewhere? I'll give it a try. See here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/04/msg00081.html The one linked to from the message above should be the latest one I uploaded, IIRC .. > > Also: Have you noticed other mouse freezes after the one you mentioned here? I see with my current 2.6.25-rc3 the mouse disappear on an old ti-book. Never, IIRC, on a newer alubook 5,8. If you're already at it, why not trying to compile the latest git sources? It should be easy after - possibly (?) - solving the package dependencies for linux-image builds ... Mini HOWTO ... :) ... : HOW TO BUILD A GIT KERNEL PACKAGE ON DEBIAN $ cd kernel-factory/git/ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git $ ls . .. linux-2.6 # Keep it up-to-date: $ cd linux-2.6/ $ git pull ## Have a nice view on the kernel: $ gitk --all & ## The compile, something like time MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-1.23" fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=-abcd1234 --revision=1234.56.78 kernel_image You'll find a .config - about 2 months old or so - via the mailing list URL above ... Good luck! Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
