Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-15 Thread Gary
"PBButtonsd is a daemon which brings support for many Laptop specific functions to Linux. Basically it was designed to support Apple iBooks, Powerbooks or TiBooks but since version 0.5 the design has been changed to support any Notebook. >From its roots pbbuttons support Apple PowerBooks and iBook

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-13 Thread nello martuscielli
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Tom McAvaney wrote: >> Now I know the hardware supports sleep, since OS X can do it.  [dig >> dig dig]  Ahh, I see that pmud has not been updated since 2001, and >> its README only mentions PowerBook G3. > > I don't have a G4 to confirm whether this works, but this

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-12 Thread Tom McAvaney
> Now I know the hardware supports sleep, since OS X can do it.  [dig > dig dig]  Ahh, I see that pmud has not been updated since 2001, and > its README only mentions PowerBook G3. I don't have a G4 to confirm whether this works, but this guy[1] seemed to have suspend-to-disk working back in 2005,

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-12 Thread Greg Ward
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Sujit K M wrote: > Some thing usefull that I found. > > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes ?? That's about keyboard mappings from, like 8 years ago. I asked about power management today. I mean, yeah, it would be great if I could hit the Mac power bu

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2010-08-11 at 23:21 -0400, Greg Ward wrote: > I'm trying to get squeeze working on a PowerBook G4. I installed a > basic system from a 5.0.4 netinst CD, upgraded to squeeze, and now I'm > adding the packages I actually need. Near the top of my list is > suspend/hibernate/power management

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-12 Thread Sujit K M
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Greg Ward wrote: > I'm trying to get squeeze working on a PowerBook G4.  I installed a > basic system from a 5.0.4 netinst CD, upgraded to squeeze, and now I'm > adding the packages I actually need.  Near the top of my list is > suspend/hibernate/power management s

Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-11 Thread Greg Ward
I'm trying to get squeeze working on a PowerBook G4. I installed a basic system from a 5.0.4 netinst CD, upgraded to squeeze, and now I'm adding the packages I actually need. Near the top of my list is suspend/hibernate/power management stuff. I just want to be able to put the laptop to sleep.