PowerBook G4, touch pad, suspend/hibernate
Posted: 09 Apr 2009, 23:21
Hello all,
I recently installed YDL 6.0.1 or 6.1, which ever the newest release is. In any event I am a comp sci student, but somewhat new to Linux, been using a basic command line version for some time now. I was running Fedora 10, but could not get it to suspend and had read that YDL was more tuned towards the ppc and apple computers. Here are my issues, any suggestions, links, etc would be greatly appreciated.
1. The touchpad is almost unusable on this machine, it randomly clicks when i am trying to move it around the screen, and is very unresponsive. I was able to get the touchpad drivers running on Fedora, but I can't seem to replicate my success.
2. Hibernate... I know this is a big problem for Linux. When i click the suspend button the computer fads to black and then immediately prompts me for my password with out suspending or hibernating. When I log back into GNOME i am told that there was an error durning hibernation and to follow a dead link. I tried grep something thing or another to see if it "can" hibernate, i get false for general hibernate, false for to disk but true for to ram. When i was running Fedora, the screen would be come distorted and then the system would freeze, i figured it was bad video drivers.
3. If anyone has any general advice for optimizing YDL on a powerbook I would appreciate it.
SYSTEM:
I am running a late 2005 pb g4 1.5 ghz with 1.25 gig ram. I have 14 gig set aside for linux.
Thanks in advance for the help!
I recently installed YDL 6.0.1 or 6.1, which ever the newest release is. In any event I am a comp sci student, but somewhat new to Linux, been using a basic command line version for some time now. I was running Fedora 10, but could not get it to suspend and had read that YDL was more tuned towards the ppc and apple computers. Here are my issues, any suggestions, links, etc would be greatly appreciated.
1. The touchpad is almost unusable on this machine, it randomly clicks when i am trying to move it around the screen, and is very unresponsive. I was able to get the touchpad drivers running on Fedora, but I can't seem to replicate my success.
2. Hibernate... I know this is a big problem for Linux. When i click the suspend button the computer fads to black and then immediately prompts me for my password with out suspending or hibernating. When I log back into GNOME i am told that there was an error durning hibernation and to follow a dead link. I tried grep something thing or another to see if it "can" hibernate, i get false for general hibernate, false for to disk but true for to ram. When i was running Fedora, the screen would be come distorted and then the system would freeze, i figured it was bad video drivers.
3. If anyone has any general advice for optimizing YDL on a powerbook I would appreciate it.
SYSTEM:
I am running a late 2005 pb g4 1.5 ghz with 1.25 gig ram. I have 14 gig set aside for linux.
Thanks in advance for the help!