Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8
Hi Sven,
On 20 Jan, this message from Sven Luther echoed through cyberspace:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:11:37AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> > However, I have another problem: it seems that pbbuttonsd can't
>> > detect activity.
>> >
[snip]
>> >
>> > Can anyone confirm this behaviour? Any fixes available?
>>
>> I had this problem with some kernels (I think 2.6.14 had the issue)
>> and/or udev version problems (check that you have the
>> various /dev/input/ entries, events mouse and kbd, I think it was
>> missing some of the events devices)
>
> Current 2.6.15 debian kernel with a sarge userland exhibit the
> problem. The mouse events work fine, but indeed the keyboard events
> don't get recognized as activity.
>
> The above comment from Benjamin Herrenschmidt made me remember that it
> is not recomended to run older udev with newer kernel, which means i
> should re-backport a newer version of udev.
>
> What distribution/kernel/udev are you running ?
Debian etch aka testing, 2.6.15 kernel.org plus fn and trackpad
patrches, udev 0.076-6 (the one currently in testing).
As I said in reply to Ben, my udev is not working anyway.
Thanks, and cheers
Michel
PS Sven, mind using a newer kernel on your daily d-i builds, so that
recent Powerbooks can be installed with that?
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