Re: ibook g3 config
Did you have a look at our wiki :
http://mockenhaupt.homelinux.org/ibookWiki/
Do not hesitate to add your comments/modifs
On Thu, 6 May 2004 10:51:16 +1000,
Greg Hamilton gracefully wrote:
>I've installed Debian on a 500Mhz G3 iBook. For the most part
>everything is working but I have a couple of problems I haven't been
>able to adequately resolve that maybe somebody can help with.
>
>I can't get my fonts to look right in X11/Gnome. Most fonts are either
>much too large or illegible and appear to be too wide/ not tall enough,
> like they've been squashed. Based on some Googling I've edited
>/etc/X11/fs/config to use 75dpi instead of 100dpi and I've disabled
>anti-aliasing for smaller fonts < 10. Emacs no longer takes up half the
> screen and is quite usable but most other apps still look terrible.
No idea
>
>Sleep doesn't work. The display dims after awhile and the backlight
>turns off eventually. The backlight also turns off if I push the power
>button, but the machine never actually goes to sleep. The pulsing sleep
> light doesn't come on and even when it looks like it's sleeping I can
>still access it remotely so I knows it's not asleep. I suspect there's
>a package I need to install or configure that I've missed.
Did you install pmud or pbbuttond ?
>
>I was previously running YDL 3.01 on this machine and this stuff all
>worked so I know it's possible. Unfortunately it worked straight after
>installing and didn't need to be configured so I have no idea where to
>look.
>
It is definitely. I don't use gnome but everything else is working
perfectly here.
--
Cedric
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accent, you silly king-a?!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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