On ven, sep 12 08:55 Adam Hewitt <ahewitt@globaldial.com> wrote : > Hi All, > > Although I am still trying various things I am having problems with my > ibook crashing when I close the lid. The power saving seems to be > working ok ie the screen goes darker after a few minutes, followed by > the screen going blank, and then the hard drives sleep...but if I close > the lid and open it immediately X goes all wierd with multiple instances > of everything spralled across the screen...although the mouse still > works. You should get Michel's /etc/power/pwrctl-local. I put it on my website : http://brebis.org/debian/ibook/pwrctl-local . chmod +x it, install pmud-utils, restart pmud daemon and you should be done. > Secondly I think I am also having a heating problem. I have been doing a > lot of kernel recompiles and after a while I hear the fan spin up and I > can smell a burning smell coming from the back of the laptop. There > isn't any smoke or any other signs of damage, however I am a tad > concerned about it. Maybe it's coming from the fact that you don't have a proper power control on your ibook ? No problems here with Michel's file, once more. > I am also having some problems getting X acceleration working. I have > compiled the drm modules from Daenzer and they compiled and installed > ok, however once I do that I reboot and lose X. X seems to start but all > I get is a black screen. Is your user a member of the dri group ? X accel won't work if your XF86Config specifies this group at the end of the file. I've put up a repository of the files I use for my iBook. Feel free to get them. http://brebis.org/debian/ibook -- Lucas Moulin <lucas@brebis.org> | http://brebis.org "There's no point in democracy when ignorance is celebrated" NOFX - Idiots Are Taking Over
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