I'm using Wheezy on my powerbook so the current kernel is 3.0.0.1
which is rather unstable (at least on my machine). The previous kernel
seems to have fewer issues. I do not get the frequent kernel panics.
I was wondering if there is any reason why it would not be good to
change yaboot's configura
I was wondering if anybody had managed to use an external monitor with one
of the 12" aluminium powerbooks. These have a 1.5 GHz G4 processor and a
nvidia graphics card. Output to an external monitor is via the mini-dvi
port. In my case, I'm trying to use this together with the mini-dvi to vga
adap
On 05/09/2011, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
>>
>>I did, however, have to edit yaboot.conf to prevent nvidiafb being
>>loaded else nouveau wouldn't load at all.
>>
>>- cfr
>
> Can you tell me which kernel arguments you pass at yaboot to have nouveau
> loaded ?
>
Sure. I added:
append="video=nvidiafb:of
On 04/09/2011, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * John Ames [110902 21:17 -0500]:
>
>> other hand, that seems to be fixed in Sid. Obviously it's playing
>> nicely enough to run framebuffer console output properly, but beyond
>> that I'm not so sure. Does that "conflicting fb usage" message
>> indicate
I am trying to find a way to suspend my laptop to either ram or disk
or both and not having much luck. In the course of trying to get this
to work, I have discovered I have no control over the backlight
whatsoever. I would be grateful for any advice or pointers to
documentation.
Laptop: 12" Alumin
I have no control over my laptop's backlight under Linux. This is a
regression since it did work fine but I'm not certain exactly when it
stopped working.
I am very new to Linux but I think that the problem is that
/sys/class/backlight/ is empty. That is, I know that the directory is
empty but don
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