--- On Mon, 1/21/13, ruben <ruben....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm... looks > like pbbuttonsd has been orphaned... > > Because of that, I wonder if there are any alternatives > maintained for > those programs? I heard about pommed, but it's still not > clear to me > if it's really an alternative for pbbuttonsd on powerpc > machines.
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. > > 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. > > Also, I configured middle and right click as fn-ctrl and > fn-option, > but it does not seem to work consistently. I enabled it with > the > following in /etc/sysctl.conf. Any hints on that? > > # enable mouse button emulation > dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1 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. > > 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. -- Debian PowerPC Install Guide at http://ppcluddite.blogspot.com -- 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/1358809866.56220.yahoomailclas...@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com