ppc (tibook) install report and suggestions

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Kapil!

Kapil Thangavelu [2004-10-06  6:04 -0500]:
>   flawless! detected and setup my wifi card

Oh, the new TiBooks do not come with the Airport Extreme any more?

> Packages
> [...]

You can always install packages you need, the CD just provides a
default selection. Many programs are in the universe component,
though.

>  firewire and hotplug
>  - i was pleasantly surprised to be able to plug in my ipod and 
>    have it recognized. i setup the fstab and mounted it hfsplus and
>    was able to play music off it. all in all very cool, as an end user 
>    though it would be nice to have it detected and mounted automatically
>    like the hotplug for cd. i see support in the hotplug scripts for 
>    rewriting fstab on the fly and mounting, how would i go about setting
>    this up for a firewire drive?

Actually it should be mounted automagically, fstab modification and
manual mounting should not be necessary. We have several developers
and users where this works flawlessly, so I am interested in debugging
this; can you please remove the fstab entry again, plug in the device
and look in the "Device Manager" (in package hal-device-manager) what
is displayed after plugging in the iPod?

>  sleep
>  - is very inconsistent, a bit like playing russian roulette. i had
>    this working flawlessly with a 2.4 kernel and gentoo, utilizing only
>    pbbuttonsd. i'm still trying to work my way through the power  
>    management stack under ubuntu to figure out the problem, but i
>    consider it a serious issue. granted, sleep is a not fun topic in
>    general for linux laptops, but its a crucial item.

https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1940

Please add your experiences there.

>  powerbook mouse emulation buttons
> 
>  - i see the appropriate settings in /etc/sysctl.conf 
> 
>   # Emulate the middle mouse button with F11 and the right with F12.
>   dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1
>   dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87
>   dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88
> 
>   however the right button mouse emulation doesn't work with those
>   defaults, i think its some sort of conflict w/ f12 as the eject button
>   and pbbuttons perhaps.. not sure.

Hmm, for me F12 is right click, and Fn+F12 is eject (I swapped the Fn
semantics in /etc/pbbuttons/pbbuttons.conf); on a freshly installed
system it should be exactly the other way round, but it should still
work. Sure that you took the Fn key into account?

>  gstreamer+totem
> 
>  - ummm.. didn't work for playing music or video. lamo. after a
>    suggestion on #dev i installed totem-xine. still, if this is the
>    default thats problematic, imho. getting realplayer/helix as a
>    default player would be nicer assuming the legal encumberance of
>    xine/mplayer front/backends is overwhelming.

Exactly this is the problem. We know that the default installation
sucks codec-wise, but we cannot ship a default system which infringes
enforced patents. Same thing with mp3, BTW.

Thanks for your report!

Martin

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