Re: Power Management et. al.
(Sorry for the late followup)
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > Still, I suggest using a mouse. The trackpad sucks.
>
> Hmm, actually I'm a fan of trackpoints. They're great. I learned typing on
> an old-style typewriter so I type 10 fingers and on IBM laptops, a
> trackpoint is always less than an inch away.
I'd certainly also prefer a trackpoint.
> Still, the trackpad is okay. I've seen worse ones.
Sure.
> True, a mouse is better, but only if you don't carry your Powerbook around
> like I do sometimes.
So do I, but I have a Logitech mini wheel mouse which I can carry with me.
> > > I've followed the discussions about sound a little bit. XMMS works fine
> > > for me in the patched version that I downloaded from Mike Daenzer. I can
> > > play mp3s fine under a normal user account (no clicks and pops). But,
> > > just as it was posted here before, the volume control doesn't work.
> >
> > You have to enable 'Volume controls Master not PCM' in the Mixer tab of
> > the output plugin preferences.
>
> Ah, great! Works, although it only regulates the "Volume" volume, thus the
> volume on line-out, not the "Speaker" volume for the built-in speakers.
Yes, use a full-blown mixer like gmix to get full control.
> > > I also installed the Audio CD Reader plugin v0.11b. But this one seems
> > > to be broken, it produces noise. Is there any bugfix available?
> >
> > It's probably an endianness bug, maybe you can figure it out and fix it?
> > :)
>
> You kidding? I don't even know the real difference between big and little
> endian and what this means for programming. And secondly, I'm a lousy C
> programmer.
Most endianness bugs are rather easy to fix.
Unfortunately I'm bad at explaining things so I refer to the Hacker Jargon:
http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/big-endian.html
Good luck,
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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