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pbbuttonsd patches

[Frank A. <fr...@sc...>]

Matthias,

I've been looking through existing packages of pbbuttonsd and came
across Mandriva RPMs. They carry some patches with script fixes. I don't
know if they were brought to your attention because they are rather old.

Changelog for haldaemon:
- add modified patch from Ubuntu to stop/start haldaemon at sleep
- update: be sure hal is down before sleeping (still looking for kernel
fix...)

Changelog for laptopmode_supermount: 
- ignore remounting of supermounted devices (if you're supermounting
ext3/reiser/xfs you are not be able to use laptop-mode to its fullest
extend)

apm-compat patch:
test returns always true

First and second one could probably considered distribution specific.
The last one should have been really gone upstream.

Regards,
Frank

Re: Getting Kernel Panics

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:53:01 -0300
Mauricio Bahamonde <elk...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
> First of all, happy new year!

Same to you :-)
 
> I'm getting kernel panics using kernel 2.6.14.5 and pbbuttonsd 0.7.3
> on my Ibook.
> I'm not sure if the cause of my kernel panics is it pbbuttonsd or not,
> but i relate them to it because the computer kinda suspends, then i
> press any key and it says at the top of the screen:
> failed on setting volume.
> Then the kernel panic says it will reboot in 180 seconds...

The machine suspends and after wakeup you got the kernel panic? 

If so then it isn't a pbbuttonsd issue because wakeup is a kernel only
issue. You could try to unload the USB driver before entering sleep. The
USB modules had some problems with sleep in the past. If this doesn't
help, post a message to debian-powerpc or the kernel mailing list (see
kernel.org for details) with detailed data about the kernel panic and
your machine.

> And the other question I have, is how can i see how much battery is
> left using pbbuttonsd...

Currently there is no special battery monitor depending on pbbuttonsd.
You could use any battery monitor out. I use gkrellm-pmu for example.

If you like to read the IBaM time predictions from pbbuttons there is
only the command line version available yet:
  > pbbcmd query TIMEREMAINING

But I will patch gkrellm-pmu in short term to provide the IBaM values
in a nice way when available.

 Best Regards
  Matthias

Getting Kernel Panics

[Mauricio B. <elk...@gm...>]

Hi,
First of all, happy new year!

I'm getting kernel panics using kernel 2.6.14.5 and pbbuttonsd 0.7.3
on my Ibook.
I'm not sure if the cause of my kernel panics is it pbbuttonsd or not,
but i relate them to it because the computer kinda suspends, then i
press any key and it says at the top of the screen:
failed on setting volume.
Then the kernel panic says it will reboot in 180 seconds...

And the other question I have, is how can i see how much battery is
left using pbbuttonsd...

Thanks a lot in advance.
Greetings,
Mauricio.

Re: Usb keyboard

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:31:20 +0100
"[ATR]Dj-Death" <dj...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm using an external apple usb keyboard on my ibook G4, but sound/eject
> keys do not work if I plug the keyboard after pbbuttonsd is started. It
> is possible to make something about that ?

Try to set the option autorescan = yes.

  Best Regards 
    Matthias

Usb keyboard

[[ATR]Dj-Death <dj...@gm...>]

Hi all,
I'm using an external apple usb keyboard on my ibook G4, but sound/eject
keys do not work if I plug the keyboard after pbbuttonsd is started. It
is possible to make something about that ?

Thx.


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Lourd c'est plus fiable
S'il marche pas, on peut toujours assommer avec !"
Boris le Hachoir

Re: pbbuttonsd hangs on powerbook5,8

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:53:20 +1100
Andy Botting <an...@an...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On my new Powerbook5,8 i'm finding that all versions of pbbuttonsd that
> I have tried (0.6.8, 0.7.x) seem to hang trying to open the /dev/i2c-4
> device on my powerbook5,8 running gentoo.
> 
> I have both the i2c-dev and i2c-keywest modules loaded, and if i2c-dev
> isn't loaded, pbbuttonsd starts ok. 
>
> pbbuttonsd will sit there forever, and even if I give it a kill -9,
> pbbuttonsd will stay until I reboot, and i have tried recreating i2c-4
> using mknod.

That's bad news but sometimes it must happen. The LMU detection (that's
the i2c device that controls the ambient sensor and the keyboard
illumination) in pbbuttonsd is quite a hack. I don't have the
appropriate hardware at hand so developing a better solution is quite
difficult and I need someone who is willing to help me with testing.

As first step you could send me a copy of your OF device tree:
         tar -czvf device-tree.tgz /proc/device-tree

In the meantime you should remove i2c-4 so that pbbuttonsd wouldn't hang.
A better LMU detection function is on my list but as already mentioned this
will take a while. Would you help me with testing?

  Best Regards
    Matthias

Re: Possible keymap issue with kernel 2.6.15-rc5

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:03:41 -0500
James Turner <ja...@nu...> wrote:

> 
> evdev is compiled into my kernel and loading uinput had no effect.  I also check the keycodes with showkey and they are sending the same codes as before.  I also recompiled pbbuttonsd, which had no effect.  Any other suggestions?

uinput is not used by pbbuttonsd.

Does the log files show any usefull information? Any error messages or
warnings regarding pbbuttonsd?

 Best Regards
   Matthias

pbbuttonsd hangs on powerbook5,8

[Andy B. <an...@an...>]

Hi all,

On my new Powerbook5,8 i'm finding that all versions of pbbuttonsd that
I have tried (0.6.8, 0.7.x) seem to hang trying to open the /dev/i2c-4
device on my powerbook5,8 running gentoo.

I have both the i2c-dev and i2c-keywest modules loaded, and if i2c-dev
isn't loaded, pbbuttonsd starts ok. 

Here is the tail of a quick strace:


stat64("/dev/pmu", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0660, st_rdev=makedev(10,
154), ...}) = 0
open("/dev/pmu", O_RDWR)                = 8
stat64("/dev/adb", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0660, st_rdev=makedev(56, 0), ...})
= 0
open("/dev/adb", O_RDWR)                = 9
open("/dev/i2c-4", O_RDWR)              = 10
ioctl(10, 0x703, 0x42)                  = 0
read(10,


pbbuttonsd will sit there forever, and even if I give it a kill -9,
pbbuttonsd will stay until I reboot, and i have tried recreating i2c-4
using mknod.

I know of another pb5,8/gentoo user who has this issue too. 

cheers,

Andy

Re: Possible keymap issue with kernel 2.6.15-rc5

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

evdev is compiled into my kernel and loading uinput had no effect.  I also check the keycodes with showkey and they are sending the same codes as before.  I also recompiled pbbuttonsd, which had no effect.  Any other suggestions?



On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:02:29 +0100, Camilla Berglund <cam...@gm...> wrote:

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> James Turner wrote:

>> I decided to replace my Debian install in favor of Gentoo.  After

>> getting my system up and running using gentoo-sources kernel

>> 2.6.14-gentoo-rc2 pbbuttonsd was working great, all buttons and

>> backlight control worked great.  I decided to upgrade to vanilla

>> kernel 2.6.15-rc5 so I could try out the airport extreme card drivers

>> recently released.  They work great, for anyone wondering, but to my

>> real issue now.  After upgraded to kernel 2.6.15-rc5, blankscreen

>> still works, but the keys to control the backlight, sound and eject

>> don't work anymore.  I used the same .config from my previous kernel,

>> and doubled check to make sure everything was enabled.

> 

> I had this happen, starting with vanilla 2.6.14. I found (by reading

> debian-powerpc) that one or both of the uinput and evdev modules aren't

> loaded by default anymore, and that this affects pbbuttonsd. After

> explicitly loading them, pbbuttonsd works as expected.

> 

> I didn't do any additional experimentation, though, so it may be that

> only one are needed.

> 

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Re: Possible keymap issue with kernel 2.6.15-rc5

[Camilla B. <cam...@gm...>]

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James Turner wrote:
> I decided to replace my Debian install in favor of Gentoo.  After
> getting my system up and running using gentoo-sources kernel
> 2.6.14-gentoo-rc2 pbbuttonsd was working great, all buttons and
> backlight control worked great.  I decided to upgrade to vanilla
> kernel 2.6.15-rc5 so I could try out the airport extreme card drivers
> recently released.  They work great, for anyone wondering, but to my
> real issue now.  After upgraded to kernel 2.6.15-rc5, blankscreen
> still works, but the keys to control the backlight, sound and eject
> don't work anymore.  I used the same .config from my previous kernel,
> and doubled check to make sure everything was enabled.

I had this happen, starting with vanilla 2.6.14. I found (by reading
debian-powerpc) that one or both of the uinput and evdev modules aren't
loaded by default anymore, and that this affects pbbuttonsd. After
explicitly loading them, pbbuttonsd works as expected.

I didn't do any additional experimentation, though, so it may be that
only one are needed.

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Possible keymap issue with kernel 2.6.15-rc5

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

I decided to replace my Debian install in favor of Gentoo.  After getting my system up and running using gentoo-sources kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-rc2 pbbuttonsd was working great, all buttons and backlight control worked great.  I decided to upgrade to vanilla kernel 2.6.15-rc5 so I could try out the airport extreme card drivers recently released.  They work great, for anyone wondering, but to my real issue now.  After upgraded to kernel 2.6.15-rc5, blankscreen still works, but the keys to control the backlight, sound and eject don't work anymore.  I used the same .config from my previous kernel, and doubled check to make sure everything was enabled.  Anyone have any ideas?  Could the keymap have changed so fn+f1 and so forth show a different keycode.  I tried out showkey but can't get it to output anything besides a 0xXXX value.  Does the XXX corrispond to the normal XXX in the pbbuttons config?  Thanks for your help.

Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Wolfram Quester <wo...@mi...>
> Date: December 13, 2005 4:31:58 AM GMT-05:00
> To: James Turner <ja...@nu...>
> Subject: Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen
>
> Hi James,
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:51:53PM -0500, James Turner wrote:
>> Thanks for all your help guys.  I was able to get all the brightness
>> controls and blankscreen to work.  I indeed had to compile rivafb
>> into my kernel.
> If I am right, you did not post this mail to the pbbuttons-users list.
> Could you please forward it there so that other people trying to solve
> the problem using google know that it is solved that way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wolfi
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Wolfram Quester wrote:
>>
>>> Hi James,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:30:22AM -0500, James Turner wrote:
>>>> Sorry if this has already been sent, I think there may have been an
>>>> error.
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I have a 12in Rec C PowerBook with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.
>>>> When running the 0.7.2 of pbbuttonsd on both Debian and Ubuntu I am
>>>> unable to control the brightness of my display.  Also when I set
>>>> pbbuttonsd to blank my screen on lid close this does not work.   
>>>> I am
>>>> aware that suspend to ram does not currently work with nvidia.  Any
>>>> help would be great.  Thanks.
>>>
>>> I guess you are not using the proper framebuffer. With recent  
>>> kernels
>>> you have three possible framebuffers:
>>> 1) offb: This is a fallback which provides only minimal options.
>>> There is
>>>         no brightness control available
>>> 2) rivafb: This is the old driver which is at the same time the
>>> only one
>>>         usable on ppc ATM. IIRC it is not compiled automatically on
>>> 	 recent kernels anymore. I'm using it happily on 2.6.13.
>>> 3) nvidiafb: This is the new implementation which is compiled
>>> normally.
>>> 	 It is buggy on ppc, so most times it doesn't take over on boot
>>> 	 time and leaves offb in place. This is what happens on your
>>> 	 machine I think. I heard benh submitted some fixes for this one
>>> 	 to be included in 2.6.15, but I did not test them yet.
>>>
>>> So, just to be sure, could you post the output of cat /proc/fb on  
>>> your
>>> machine? Make sure you use rivafb, and all should be fine.
>>>
>>> With best regards,
>>>
>>> Wolfi
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

Thanks for all your help guys.  I was able to get all the brightness  
controls and blankscreen to work.  I indeed had to compile rivafb  
into my kernel.
-----------------------------------------------------------
James Turner <ja...@nu...>

Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen

[Wolfram Q. <wo...@mi...>]

Hi James,

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:30:22AM -0500, James Turner wrote:
> Sorry if this has already been sent, I think there may have been an =20
> error.
>=20
> Hi, I have a 12in Rec C PowerBook with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.  =20
> When running the 0.7.2 of pbbuttonsd on both Debian and Ubuntu I am =20
> unable to control the brightness of my display.  Also when I set =20
> pbbuttonsd to blank my screen on lid close this does not work.  I am =20
> aware that suspend to ram does not currently work with nvidia.  Any =20
> help would be great.  Thanks.

I guess you are not using the proper framebuffer. With recent kernels
you have three possible framebuffers:
1) offb: This is a fallback which provides only minimal options. There is
         no brightness control available
2) rivafb: This is the old driver which is at the same time the only one
         usable on ppc ATM. IIRC it is not compiled automatically on
	 recent kernels anymore. I'm using it happily on 2.6.13.
3) nvidiafb: This is the new implementation which is compiled normally.
	 It is buggy on ppc, so most times it doesn't take over on boot
	 time and leaves offb in place. This is what happens on your
	 machine I think. I heard benh submitted some fixes for this one
	 to be included in 2.6.15, but I did not test them yet.

So, just to be sure, could you post the output of cat /proc/fb on your
machine? Make sure you use rivafb, and all should be fine.

With best regards,

Wolfi
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Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen

[Kristian B. <kb...@op...>]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 11:30 -0500, James Turner wrote:
> Sorry if this has already been sent, I think there may have been an  
> error.
> 
> Hi, I have a 12in Rec C PowerBook with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.   
> When running the 0.7.2 of pbbuttonsd on both Debian and Ubuntu I am  
> unable to control the brightness of my display.

You should have a look at showkey in console, it tells you the keycode
of the key you pressed (wait 10 second to quit). Those are the keycode
used by pbbuttonsd, check that they match your settings
in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf. I use

LCD_IllumUpKey        = 60 + ctrl
LCD_IllumDownKey      = 59 + ctrl

but you might have other keys.

> Also when I set  
> pbbuttonsd to blank my screen on lid close this does not work.  I am  
> aware that suspend to ram does not currently work with nvidia.  Any  
> help would be great.  Thanks.

onAC_CoverAction      = blankscreen

should do it, but you probably already tried that. If that does not
work, you probably want to have a look at your logs.

Kristian Benoit

Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

Sorry if this has already been sent, I think there may have been an  
error.

Hi, I have a 12in Rec C PowerBook with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.   
When running the 0.7.2 of pbbuttonsd on both Debian and Ubuntu I am  
unable to control the brightness of my display.  Also when I set  
pbbuttonsd to blank my screen on lid close this does not work.  I am  
aware that suspend to ram does not currently work with nvidia.  Any  
help would be great.  Thanks.

-----------------------------------------------------------
James Turner <ja...@nu...>

Question about brightness and blankscreen option

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

Hi, I have a 12in Rec C PowerBook with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.   
When running the 0.7.2 of pbbuttonsd on both Debian and Ubuntu I am  
unable to control the brightness of my display.  Also when I set  
pbbuttonsd to blank my screen on lid close this does not work.  I am  
aware that suspend to ram does not currently work with nvidia.  Any  
help would be great.  Thanks.
-----------------------------------------------------------
James Turner <ja...@nu...>

Public Beta Version - PBButtonsd 0.7.3beta1 released

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

Hi,
I released a Beta of the upcomming pbbuttons 0.7.3 and request your
assistance to test it and tell me about anything weird you will find.

The Beta could be downloaded from:
                   http://pbbuttons.berlios.de/

IMPORTANT: Compile PBButtons with '--with-ibam' to enable IBaM and read
the IBaM chapters in the man-page carefully. It needs some preparations
to unfold it's full power.

Create a directory /var/lib/ibam in which IBaM can store its data. This
directory is not created by the installation script yet.

The upcomming relase will get a new time estimation algorithm. This new
algoritm leads to amazing accurate runtime predictions on battery. Also
battery warnings will be very accurate and reliable. If it says you
have 10 minutes left, you _will_ have 10 minutes left.

Battery aging will be continously tracked so that the time predictions
will be accurate over time nevertheless how old the battery is.
Adjusting battery warnlevels in a configuration file is yesterday,
IBaM is now.

Intelligent Battery Monitoring uses statistical and linear adaptive
methods to estimates the time remaining on battery and also the time
until batteries are fully recharged.

Nevertheless it works already very well, IBaM is still beta software.
Please test this version and give me any feedback you think is usefull. 

 Best Regards
   Matthias

Re: [OT] What about your fans ?

[Tom C. <tca...@ch...>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:14:12AM +0100, Olivier Mehani wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm sorry, this mail might be totally off topic, but I didn't manage to
> find a real user-related linuxppc ML and didn't feel like posting on
> linuxppc-devel was a good idea. I'm posting here because I feel this is
> a somewhat powermanagement problem. Please, feel free to flame if there
> is a more appropriate ML ;)

The fans are controlled by kernel module therm_adt746x.  The settings are
controllable from /sys/devices/temperatures.  The reported temperatures
are neither C nor F. =20

> I have an iBook 12" from 06/2005. And I find that, compared to what I
> have seen with OS X, the fans are on much more often. Is this normal ?
> I guess the "adt746x: Lowering max temperatures from 69, 92, 101 to 70,
> 50, 70" in my logs can explain that, but I wanted to be sure it was the
> normal behavior and not something to worry about.

My pbook runs the fans more often under linux than osx.  The system is a
lot warmer under osx.

>=20
> Moreover (and this is my real problem which I think may be related to
> the above), the computer sometimes freezes or suddenly reboots.
> Whenever this happens, the fans are always (by the noise) at their
> maximum speed. This behavior started around the time (can't be more
> precise I'm affraid:-/ ) I dumped pmud for pbbuttonsd to do all the
> job. Maybe I'm missing something or made a mistake. Google was not so
> chatty about this problem...

I do not experience any lockups.

>=20
> For information:
> Linux gloduk 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 #2 Sun Nov 6 17:43:59 CET 2005 ppc 7447A,
> altivec supported PowerBook6,5 GNU/Linux
>=20
> pbbuttonsd, version 0.7.2, (c) 2002-2005 Matthias Grimm
>=20
> I'm really at a loss, so any hint or detail on how it is for you will be
> largely appreciated.
>=20
> --=20
> Olivier Mehani <sh...@ss...>
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[OT] What about your fans ?

[Olivier M. <sh...@ss...>]

Hi,

I'm sorry, this mail might be totally off topic, but I didn't manage to
find a real user-related linuxppc ML and didn't feel like posting on
linuxppc-devel was a good idea. I'm posting here because I feel this is
a somewhat powermanagement problem. Please, feel free to flame if there
is a more appropriate ML ;)

I have an iBook 12" from 06/2005. And I find that, compared to what I
have seen with OS X, the fans are on much more often. Is this normal ?
I guess the "adt746x: Lowering max temperatures from 69, 92, 101 to 70,
50, 70" in my logs can explain that, but I wanted to be sure it was the
normal behavior and not something to worry about.

Moreover (and this is my real problem which I think may be related to
the above), the computer sometimes freezes or suddenly reboots.
Whenever this happens, the fans are always (by the noise) at their
maximum speed. This behavior started around the time (can't be more
precise I'm affraid:-/ ) I dumped pmud for pbbuttonsd to do all the
job. Maybe I'm missing something or made a mistake. Google was not so
chatty about this problem...

For information:
Linux gloduk 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 #2 Sun Nov 6 17:43:59 CET 2005 ppc 7447A,
altivec supported PowerBook6,5 GNU/Linux

pbbuttonsd, version 0.7.2, (c) 2002-2005 Matthias Grimm

I'm really at a loss, so any hint or detail on how it is for you will be
largely appreciated.

--=20
Olivier Mehani <sh...@ss...>
PGP fingerprint: 3720 A1F7 1367 9FA3 C654 6DFB 6845 4071 E346 2FD1

Problems with sleep support

[Scott J. H. <sc...@cs...>]

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I sent this in yesterday and it was caught by me not being subscribed,
so now I have subscribed and I have some additional information.

The new info is that I can't get my back light on my lcd to change.  It
just stays at 0 but my lcd is as full brightness.  I know for a fact
that this worked even before benh got sleep working on ibook g4s with
radeons.

I am replying to a post on this list from a few days ago.  I too am
having the problems with making my iBook G4(800MHz) go to sleep under
Ubuntu Breezy with pbbuttonsd 0.7.1.

The thing is, the problems only started happening after a fresh
reinstall of Ubuntu Breezy.  Before this past Saturday I had been
running a copy of Ubuntu Breezy that was upgraded from Hoary.  On that
previous install suspend to ram worked perfectly and out of the box(well
not really I had to add a line to my xorg.conf).  So I'm very confused
about why the "same" system would not work.  In theory both systems
should be exactly the same, even up to the software level.  I made no
changes to my hardware, I was just repartitioning to get more space for
MacOSX(apparently you can't really run it on 10Gigs and do real stuff
with it).

Also, I was under the impression that sleep on Radeons had been
supported since linux 2.6.8 or there abouts.  Going with the kernel in
both breezy(2.6.12) and hoary(2.6.10), I still get the same results.

I'm slightly confounded by this as I know for a fact suspend was working
up until I reinstalled breezy from scratch.

If anyone has any ideas I would be very appreciative, but otherwise I'm
going to try installing hoary and dist-upgrading to breezy to see if
that fixes it.  In all honesty I know that shouldn't fix it, but I know
for a fact I had suspend on my previous install.



Thanks.

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Problems with sleep support

[Scott J. H. <sc...@cs...>]

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I am replying to a post on this list from a few days ago.  I too am
having the problems with making my iBook G4(800MHz) go to sleep under
Ubuntu Breezy with pbbuttonsd 0.7.1.

The thing is, the problems only started happening after a fresh
reinstall of Ubuntu Breezy.  Before this past Saturday I had been
running a copy of Ubuntu Breezy that was upgraded from Hoary.  On that
previous install suspend to ram worked perfectly and out of the box(well
not really I had to add a line to my xorg.conf).  So I'm very confused
about why the "same" system would not work.  In theory both systems
should be exactly the same, even up to the software level.  I made no
changes to my hardware, I was just repartitioning to get more space for
MacOSX(apparently you can't really run it on 10Gigs and do real stuff
with it).

Also, I was under the impression that sleep on Radeons had been
supported since linux 2.6.8 or there abouts.  Going with the kernel in
both breezy(2.6.12) and hoary(2.6.10), I still get the same results.

I'm slightly confounded by this as I know for a fact suspend was working
up until I reinstalled breezy from scratch.

If anyone has any ideas I would be very appreciative, but otherwise I'm
going to try installing hoary and dist-upgrading to breezy to see if
that fixes it.  In all honesty I know that shouldn't fix it, but I know
for a fact I had suspend on my previous install.

Thanks.

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Scott Henson
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Kernel-2.6.14 and pbbuttons

[Thorsten <tho...@t-...>]

Hello all,

i have a little problem with pbbuttons and kernel-2.6.14: 

With kernel-2.6.13.4 brigthnes control with Fn+F1/Fn+F2 works fine! After updating to 2.6.14 Fn+F1/Fn+F2 wont work. The funny thing is, that without pbbuttons Fn+F1/Fn+F2 works. After starting pbbuttons, the brightnes controll stops working!

Any suggestions would be fine!

Bye
  Thorsten 

Re: [MODULE DISPLAY] KBD_Illum

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:22:56 +0100
Jes=FAs de Cos P=E9rez <jes...@gm...> wrote:

> I have a powerbook5,6 15" recently bought. Mi message is about keyboard
> backlight ilumination which does not like to work. I have installed pbbut=
tonsd
> | gtkpbbuttons-gnome | powerprefs. I have the kernel modules to run senso=
rs
> (i2c-dev and some others). When running powerprefs, in the "bulb tab", the
> "keyboard"

Please check if you have i2c-keywest loaded. Furthermore often a i2c device=
 is
missing. Check if you have a device called /dev/i2c-4. If not a

   mknod /dev/i2c-4 c 89 4

might help.

 Best Regards
   Matthias

[MODULE DISPLAY] KBD_Illum

[<jes...@gm...>]

Hello!

I have a powerbook5,6 15" recently bought. Mi message is about keyboard
backlight ilumination which does not like to work. I have installed pbbutto=
nsd
| gtkpbbuttons-gnome | powerprefs. I have the kernel modules to run sensors
(i2c-dev and some others). When running powerprefs, in the "bulb tab", the
"keyboard"
and "Autoadjust" tabs appear in grey (not accesible). How can I do to run
keyboard's backlight? I read about the daemon lmud but I don't know how to
get and install it.

Can anybody help me? I enclose my /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf

Regards.

# Configuration file for pbbuttonsd >=3D version 0.5
# for options see man pbbuttonsd.conf

[SYSTEM]
#userallowed =3D "" ; user who is allowed to use IPC
autorescan =3D no ; automatic rescan of event devices
CmdTimeout =3D 8 ; timeout in seconds for launched scripts, etc.

[MODULE PMAC]
dev_PMU =3D "/dev/pmu"
dev_ADB =3D "/dev/adb"
TPModeUpKey =3D 225 + alt
TPModeDownKey =3D 224 + alt
TPMode =3D notap ; 'notap', 'tap', 'drag' or 'lock'
KBDMode =3D fkeysfirst ; 'fkeyslast' or 'fkeysfirst'
Batlog =3D none ; 'none', 'cycle' or 'log'
NoTapTyping =3D no ; switch trackpad to 'notap-mode' while typing

[MODULE POWERSAVE]
onAC_Policy =3D performance ; 'nochange', 'powersave', 'custom' or
'performance'
onAC_TimerAction =3D none ; 'none', 'suspend-to-ram', 'suspend-to-disk' or
'blankscreen'
onAC_CoverAction =3D suspend-to-ram ; see TimerAction for possible values
onAC_KeyAction =3D none ; Action (see TimerAction) for the sleepkey
onAC_SuspendTime =3D 0
onAC_DimTime =3D 0
onBattery_Policy =3D powersave ; 'nochange', 'powersave', 'custom' or
'performance'
onBattery_TimerAction =3D none ; 'none', 'suspend-to-ram', 'suspend-to-disk=
'
or 'blankscreen'
onBattery_CoverAction =3D suspend-to-ram ; see TimerAction for possible val=
ues
onBattery_KeyAction =3D none ; Action (see TimerAction) for the sleepkey
onBattery_SuspendTime =3D 0
onBattery_DimTime =3D 0
SleepKey =3D 116
SleepKeyDelay =3D 0 ; values > 0 may be dangerous, if the power key is used=
 to
trigger sleep
BWL_first =3D 22 ; first battery warnlevel, time in minutes
BWL_second =3D 10 ; second battery warnlevel, time in minutes
BWL_last =3D 3 ; last battery warnlevel, time in minutes
Script_PMCS =3D "/etc/power/pmcs-pbbuttonsd %s %s %s"
EmergencyAction =3D sleep ; action, if battery is critically low
HeartbeatBeep =3D no ; beep, if nothing else showed that the computer lives
CPULoad_sleeplock =3D yes
CPULoad_min =3D 20 ; value in percent
CPULoad_period =3D 20 ; time in seconds
NETLoad_sleeplock =3D yes
NETLoad_min =3D 4096 ; traffic in Bytes/s
NETLoad_period =3D 20 ; time in seconds
NETLoad_device =3D "eth0"

[MODULE DISPLAY]
LCD_Brightness =3D 15 ; initial LCD brightness level
LCD_FadingSpeed =3D 5 ; 0 =3D no smooth fading
LCD_AutoAdjust =3D yes ; only on Aluminum PowerBooks
LCD_IllumUpKey =3D 60 + ctrl
LCD_IllumDownKey =3D 59 + ctrl
LCD_Threshold =3D 94 ; ambient light threshold in percent for backlight
autoadj.
LCD_AutoAdjMin_Bat =3D 2 ; autoadjustment range parameters
LCD_AutoAdjMax_Bat =3D 7
LCD_AutoAdjMin_AC =3D 1
LCD_AutoAdjMax_AC =3D 15
KBD_Brightness =3D 0 ; initial keyboard illumination level
KBD_OnBrightness =3D 5 ; initial level if KBD on/off key is pressed
KBD_FadingSpeed =3D 5 ; 0 =3D no smooth fading
KBD_AutoAdjust =3D yes ; only on Aluminum PowerBooks
KBD_IllumUpKey =3D 68 + ctrl
KBD_IllumDownKey =3D 67 + ctrl
KBD_IllumOnKey =3D 66 + ctrl
KBD_Threshold =3D 28 ; ambient light threshold in percent for keyboard ligh=
t
autoadj.
dev_FrameBuffer =3D "/dev/fb0"
UseFBBlank =3D no
DimFullyDark =3D yes
CRT_MirrorKey =3D 65 + ctrl

[MODULE CDROM]
dev_CDROM =3D "/dev/cdrom"
EjectCDKey =3D 161
EjectCDKeyDelay =3D 0

[MODULE MIXER]
SoundSystem =3D ALSA ; 'none', 'auto', 'OSS' or 'ALSA'
OSS_Device =3D "/dev/mixer"
OSS_Channels =3D "volume, speaker"
Volume =3D 68 ; initial volume level
Speakers_muted =3D no ; mute after startup?
VolumeUpKey =3D 63 + ctrl
VolumeDownKey =3D 62 + ctrl
MuteKey =3D 61 + ctrl
MixerInitDelay =3D no
ALSA_Card =3D "default"
ALSA_Elements =3D "Master, 'PC Speaker'"