On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:07:24PM -0400, Jeff Feige wrote: > Boy, I've sure noticed that the PPC support is lacking compared to i386, > but I'm sure all of you know that already. > > I'm running Debian (Woody) on a Snow 500MHz (Flower Power motherboard is > what's reported in dmesg) CRT iMac. I have been fairly successful in > getting *most* everything set up. > > My questions are as follows: > > 1. Is there any way to adjust the monitor settings (brightness, > contrast etc.) with Linux? I have googled to my hearts content but have > found nothing definintive. I did install pmud and the pmud-utils. The > only thing I can get to work is snooze, but of course, it puts the > machine into power saving mode and turns the monitor off as well. This > is great except that it keeps me from running any servers or background > processes. It seems that DPMS only turns the monitor to black, but > doesn't shut it off like I would like. Since the brightness is cranked > all the way up, the screen never gets darker than about 5-10% grey. I'm > sure this is *real* good for the CRT over the long haul.
I don't think so... > 2. My mixer (/dev/mixer) doesn't really seem to work properly. The Main > volume control does nothing, while the speaker control adjusts the > volume. This would be OK except: 1. My volume control in XMMS (I'm > running gnome w/o esound (too slow) - so I'm using OSS in XMMS) doesn't > work. 2. Since I cannot separately control PCM, Master and Speaker > volume, I cannot listen to headphones and turn the built-in speaker > volume down. aumix works. > 3. Since the cdrom drive doesn't seem to have analog audio hooked to > the sound card, how do you guys deal with playing CDs? Another posted mentioned the xmms solution, which I haven't gotten to work on my machine (a bit older than yours). Good luck, and if you don't hit the right combination, search the list for my cdda2wav hack. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
