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Re: sid - PowerBook G4 1.5 Al (radeon) - No Backlight on fourth boot - pbbuttonsd/hdparm



Hi,

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 07:12:00AM +0000, Fadi Osman wrote:
>> So I started up in nomodeset - and using the Console, uninstalled
>> pbbuttonsd and hdparm, and now have my Backlight back again!
>
> Thanks for investigating this and thanks for this information.
>
> Might be a good idea to put it up in the wiki here:
>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ
>
>> I have kept the contents of /var/log for each of my boot attempt -
>> but not the fourth unfortunately. A first attempt to compare them was
>> not very helpful.
>>
>> I might try to reinstall pbbuttonsd and prepare a script to copy the
>> /var/log with the backlight off.
>
> Yes, please. Once you have gained enough information, please file a
> bug report against the pbuttonsd package so the maintainer is
> notified, although I haven't checked whether the package is still
> maintained.

Dead upstream, but I am ok to integrate users patch if needed.

-M


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