On Sun, 10 May 2009 02:00:56 +0200 drz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there > > Im really happy to have gotten a powerbook g4, was a PC user before. > And lenny works great. No installation issues. Good work! > Maybe I should add that I encryted the whole system with the installer. >
I have a PowerBook G4 and Debian has been working great here. Kudos to debian devs. > 1. I havent worked on getting the wireless to go. Any Links to HOWTOs are > welcome. > Wireless should work out of the box. I never had an issue with wireless on this PB G4. What do you get when you type 'sudo iwlist scan'? Also, you might need to install wireless-tools if that command is not available. > 2. Does anybody have a working xorg.conf for a powerbook g4 with ati 9700 > (rv350)? > > I cant enable Desktop effects on kde 4.2.2 :( If I enable effects the xserver > freezes and so I cant even get into the console by alt-ctrl-f1. Turning the > computer off is the only solution. > Compositing has always been a problem for me as well. I think it has to do with the graphics chip. You might want to checkout if you chip has compositing support. Try 'man radeon' to get a list of supported cards. Or man 'ati'. > Direct Rendering worked out of the box, but I dont really know how to get > compositing to work. > > I also have a problem with the colours in kde. Some blue colours like the > default K-Menu-symbol is some kind of orange :) > I had that same issue too...not sure why that is. I don't use KDE anymore though. > I just changed the driver to radeon in xorg.conf yet. Oh, and I set UseFBdev > to false after having a problem with weird fonts in tty1 when i stopped gdm. > > $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf > [snip] > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:lwin_switch" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" > Option "UseFBDev" "false" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > 3. Is it possible to scroll or right click without an external mouse on the > touchpad? > Yes it is...install mouseemu package and edit the /etc/default/mouseemu config file. > Im thankful for every comment or links on this and the wireless installation. > > greetz > drz > Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
