Problems after using UBUNTU for about 13 Days...

[Karsten Fischer]

Am 28.09.2004 um 16:25 schrieb Martin Pitt:

> Hi Karsten!

Hi Martin!
>
> On 2004-09-28 15:23 +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote:
>> Platform: PowerPC (iBook G3, summer 2003, 800 Mhz G3, 640 MB RAM)
>> OS-Specific:	While running on Battery-Power, Ubuntu seems to drain
>> the battery almost twice as fast as OS X; CPU is running at 400 Mhz –
>> as it would in OS X, but this doesn't seem to have 	any dramatic
>> influence on battery-usage. Way to go there...
>
> Odd, in the default installation my iBook runs nearly 5 hours; that's
> comparable to OSX. Does frequency scaling and power management work on
> your iBook?

Now that's a good one. Actually, I don't know. /proc/cpuinfo says, that 
when on battery the cpu frequency is at 400 MHz, if not it is 800 MHz. 
Apart from that I didn't find any other settings which I could either 
check or set.

>> OS-Specific:	the modem is neither detected nor is any software
>> installed (using the Desktop-install) for the use of it. Very
>> interesting, since nearly any Mac produced in the last three to four
>> years seems to have a modem. Internet via Modem as well as Fax should
>> be installed as default I think.
>
> At least the current iBooks (like mine) contain a softmodem, for which
> no driver exists. Does your modem work with other Linux distros?

This would explain that. Ubuntu is the first Linux I tried on my sacred 
iBook, so I really can't tell you. I did in fact found a driver which 
could work, if only it would work with the 2.6-kernel.

>
>> Desktop-Specific:	My Digital camera (a no-name brand which
>> identifies itself as USB-Mass storage) seems to be detected, I even 
>> get
>> a dialog which states that there seem to be pictures on it and if I
>> would like to copy them to the computer – great. Unfortunately, in
>> the next window I am asked to select my camera, since there seems to 
>> be
>> no camera connected to my computer. Regardless which camera I choose, 
>> I
>> couldn't import any pictures of it.
>
> https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292
>
> As a workaround, just disable photo importing in Computer -> Desktop
> Settings -> Removable media (translated from German).

What an odd workaround :)

>
>> Desktop-Specific:	The Keyboard doesn't work as anticipated. After
>> a long, long time of fiddling with it I came up with a work-around:
>> every time I log in, I open a terminal and issue the following command
>> 'xmodmap -e „keycode 64=Mode_switch“', after which I can use the
>> Option-Key to generate things like the '@'-smybol using the
>> Apple-default Option-l. This seems to be a minor bug, but pretty
>> annoying – and is probably fixed in the latest builds.
>
> This is a known problem, and I don't think that it is fixed. Does 64
> really assign the Option (Apple) key? At my iBook G4 (German) this is
> the Alt key, 0x73 is Option (Apple).
>
> Can you please file a bug about this?

Huh, maybe I mixed something up, then. If I recall that correctly, the 
Apple-Key is called Command, whereas the Option-Key is, well, the 
Option-Key.

>
>> By the way: it
>> seems that the default buttons for closing a window (which seems to be
>> – in most cases – the same as closing the application) is something
>> strange and should set to the default Command-W and Command-Q
>
> You mean instead of Alt+F4?

Well, yes. The F-Keys on any iBook I know are not really usable (they 
require that another key is pressed simultaneously) and therefore 
shouldn't be used. Apart from that, there is also another thought which 
should be considered: If Ubuntu is mimicking the behavior of windows, 
it cannot surpass windows. The same goes for OS X, obviously, but I 
seriously doubt that OS X could be seen in that way since it is nearly 
hardwired to Apple's own hardware. So why not get an empty sheet of 
paper, a pencil and start a very own desktop-philosophy?

>
> Martin
>
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