Richard Hult

I've officially jumped on the Ubuntu bandwagon! I definitely like it. The GNOME setup is really sweet, although as usual I've already built GNOME myself so the niceness is somewhat diminished. I hadn't tried hal/gnome-volume-manager before, so it was a pleasant surprise to see my usb drive automatically appear on the desktop as I plugged it in :) The overall amount of tweaking to get a nice system is a lot less than the regular debian installation, so I'm happy.

Other good news: the PowerBook heat situation is a bit better now that I've started using cpufreqd, which is nice. Hopefully the battery time will improve a bit too. I'm looking forward to the rewritten therm module in 2.6.10-rc which I think will probably make things even better since it makes better use of the fans.

Posted by Richard Hult at 11:20 PM | Permalink

I've been running Ben's patch for sleep support on my PowerBook now for a while. It's working pretty well, except for the odd problem here and there. USB seems to be a bit flaky so I have to unplug and plug the mouse sometimes to get it working after resume. It's still really nice to be able to just close the lid :)

The only drawback is that I have to run a 2.6.9 kernel, which for some reason makes the laptop run a lot hotter than 2.6.7 does. The change is triggered easily by just booting with 2.6.8 or later instead of 2.6.7. Does anyone else see this behavior, or has a clue what causes this? I've asked on the debian-powerpc list but nobody seems to know. Getting the temperature back to normal would make me a very happy man.

Posted by Richard Hult at 08:37 PM | Permalink