Dear Debian-for-PPC developers and users
I am using an old 2003 G3 ibook with debian wheezy (3.2.0-4-powerpc #1
Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 ppc GNU/Linux), initially installed as linux
mint. It had all been working fine until yesterday when the
resume-from-suspend stopped working. I have performed an upgrade to the
current version of all installed packages. I have been using lxde and
xfce4 on the system.
There was one "anomaly" when waking up from suspend since Debian had
been installed. When closing the lid, the computer would go to suspend.
When re-opening, it would wake up for a few seconds, then go back to
suspend without user interaction. Pressing a keyboard key would then
wake it up again, and it would function fine.
Now, since the upgrade (did not note the versions I had been using
before) the system goes to suspend. When re-opening, it does power up
the screen backlight, and the caps lock key as well as num lock key LEDs
work, however, nothing else starts up, and there is no network
connection either. Thus, it is impossible to see what exactly fails. All
the remains is to turn off the power and to reboot.
I wonder if there has been any change to packages that could explain
this behavior. I have found several old posts about older Debian
versions with similar "symptoms" and have tried to exchange pbbuttonsd
for pmud. It all remains the same. No waking up from suspend anymore.
Does anyone have an ibook / powerbook G3 with the current Debian wheezy
running and suspend still works? Which packages are installed? I would
be grateful for a list. Are there any customizations needed? I do not
recall that I had to adapt any file after the installation for
suspend/resume to work. Unfortunately, now, when trying to find the
problem, I have added and removed quite some packages and the whole
thing seems to boil down do the kernel rather than the ppbuttonsd etc.
level.
Has anyone else with an ibook / pb G3 experience the same problem recently?
Any idea is appreciated
Best
Juergen