Re: Fedora PPC things...

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike flyn org>]

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> 4. power management - we need either pmud or pbbuttonsd. The latter has
> received no love from most fedora/ppc users, so pmud seems to be the
> winner, I'd guess. We need this included in Core (building only for ppc,
> and possibly later ppc64). We know yellow dog add some nice patches for
> disabling the touchpad in pmud - I guess the package maintainer can be
> free to include such patches at will if need be

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> 6. back to the topic of power management; there are some patches out
> there that help G4 iBooks and newer powerbooks sleep (and wake up).
> They're not in the upstream kernel.org kernel, but with good benh
> approval (!), we might consider patching the kernel to make it more
> useful. dwmw2 currently builds kernels with these patches enabled

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=140290 for
some more notes about the G4 iBook sleep patch.

Someone else mentioned mouse-emulation.  For a discussion on this,
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=108095.

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-- 
Mike

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