Re: Help? Kernel Build Howto for PowerBook G4 (5,2)

[Timo Reimerdes <tr@gtnw.de>]

Ok,

I installed your precompiled kernel. It installed without any problems.

I updated the /etc/yaboot.conf and executed ybin.

Then the reboot:
some error messages about 
kernel: cdrom: open failed.
kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed
kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table
kernel: device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed
whatever that means... gonna research about it in a while.

And there was a line about some alsa sound volume resetting that
supposedly messed up... but I havent found it in the logs O_o... maybe
some spelling error by me on my grep ;)

So far so good - everything else works (no usb-stick here so cant test
that need-to-have-feature) :/ Startsound greets me on login to ubuntu
(must remember to turn that off)

Then I closed the lid (my heart beating)... It took the computer a
couple of seconds and IT WORKS! Sleep!

Then I reopened the lid and was shocked! The bug when the display is all
fuzzy and unreaddable was there. X appeared and the error was there,
too. Since I used to fix that by killing X (alt-ctrl-backspace) and
letting it restart into gdm (need to switch to my beloved
text-only-login) I tried to just close the lid again. Sleep. Opening the
lid. Wakeup: And *happy* the error was gone. Sound works, the usb-mouse
works, the cd-burning works! Wonderfull! Now I'm gonna test it with all
my regular applications running. (XChat, Gaim, Evolution, several
Gnome-Terminals, Several Times Epiphany, emacs, ...) If they all survive
and come back properly I am in absolute joy!

Does your image include USB-Storage support? I hope it does. (oh ok - I
just got your mail - If I'm right everything needed is compiled into the
kernel)

So. Great Thanks to you. Really! 

:happy:

Timo Reimerdes

ps: any idea about this occasionally messed up display? It's not your
kernel - I had that with about every kernel version I had running on
this computer, and as well under debian as under the ubuntu.