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
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
On 05/09/2011, Jeroen Diederen jjhdiede...@zonnet.nl 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:
On 04/09/2011, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de 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
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
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
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