[vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Mar 18, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Henry House wrote:

> På fredag, 18 mars 2005, skrev Rick Moen:
>> Quoting Henry House (hajhouse at houseag.com):
>>
>> [Special considerations for "New world" Macs:]
>>
>>> - the bootloader; I believe this situation is greatly improved since 
>>> my
>>>   experience
>>
>> These days, there's one that goes into its own partition/slice: 
>> yaboot.
>
> Yaboot did not work reliably on my machine due to firmware bugs; I 
> trust
> that this situation has improved.
>

I have had similar problems with with OF bootloaders. However, 
according to the people on the debian-ppc list it is possible on just 
about any machine.


> [...]
>>> - the mouse: it only has one button so you need to emulate the other 
>>> two for
>>>   X apps that expect three buttons
>>
>> This is something I had to hand-hack into one of the init scripts at 
>> the
>> time I disabled Ubuntu's gnome-session startup, installed Windows 
>> Maker,
>> and set that as the default window manager:  There's a utility you
>> invoke to assign the 2nd and 3rd mouse button functions to F11 and 
>> F12,
>> respectively.
>
> Nice. I used a kernel argument to to this, but it only worked on ADB
> keyboards, not USB.

adding support for single button mice can be done simply by editing 
/etc/sysctl.conf : here is an example:

http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/linux/doc/sysctl.conf


>> The other thing is that software suspend didn't work, out of the box.
>> (I haven't fix this, yet.)
>
> Do you mean sleep mode? I never got that to work properly, either.
>

Sleep mode works on my powerbook G3 (mainstreet), but only seems to 
work once per reboot cycle... obviously not ideal. you need pbbuttonsd 
for this to work. Again, according to the debian-ppc list it is 
possible to get working sleep from newer machines.

Dylan