[...]
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
[...]
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.
[...]
--
Mike
:wq