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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ruben <ruben....@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:37 AM Subject: Re: debian on iBook G4 To: Dan DeVoto <dand1...@yahoo.com> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Dan DeVoto <dand1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I don't think pommed does power-saving things like spin down the hard drive, > but I've never used it. I used to use powerprefs to configure pbbuttonsd, > but now I just edit /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf. It's not too hard. Ok, I should still have that config file somewhere. >> I also noticed >> that the terminals become unreadable whenever I shutdown the >> display manager... > > Happens to me, too, when I shut down the display manager to create a > xorg.conf file. That was the only time I had to, so I didn't investigate it. > ok > Mine looks like this and works fine: > > dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 > dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 97 > dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 96 > > 97 is fn + ctrl and 96 is the enter key next to the right command key. If > you have mouseemu installed, that might cause a conflict. Hah.. my "enter" key is remapped to a right control. But thanks for mentioning mouseemu. It seems I have mouseemu installed... I'll uninstall that one and I hope that's why it's acting weird. >> Finally, I noticed that the ondemand governor on current >> kernels no >> longer works with the G4. If I'm not mistaken, this did work >> with >> older kernels, so I'm a bit surprised. Which kind of >> external tools >> can be used to get similar behavior? > > There's cpufreqd, but it's kind of a hassle to set up. There used to be > powernowd, but I think that's in the process of being removed. Ubuntu's > PowerPC FAQ has some advice to install it. After powernowd got removed from > Testing by some overzealous purger, I just decided to not bother with any of > it. Ok... I'll check it. I also remember that I had laptop-mode-tools installed, maybe I'll install that again. thanks, Ruben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajh4lrnauzmj0cyea-nrgmjgesv3tgzsc1spn+x8938gvnr...@mail.gmail.com
