I agree with the general tenor of your remarks as I have a similar setup to yours with Debian and a 2.6.7 kernel. The gnome wmanager, which I didn't much appreciate before, is much improved and I'm getting to like it a lot - beautiful design and almost as swish as the Mac interface.
Thanks to your message I managed to sort out the trackpad problem, which was indeed annoying. However, I'm not sure why you recommend pmud-utils. On attempting to install it, I saw that it wanted to to remove pbbuttonsd, which works (sort of) to control the Mac buttons.
With gnome the battery indicator gives ample warning of low power and apparently pbbuttonsd has a default configuration to force an elegant shutdown if things get really critical, though I haven't dared to test it yet.
One problem which I haven't found a solution to, is no sound while using the Gnome CD player. If I rip the CD and play the ogg or mp3 files from disk, there's no problem. Have you encountered the same problem?
Another question: how do you start/stop vm/laptop_mode? I found a script a script for it, but as I am no geek, I am wary of using it as I think it is not for powerpcs. Script at:
http://www.ulihansen.kick-ass.net/aero/linux/lapto p-mode/
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I agree with the general tenor of your remarks as I have a similar setup to yours with Debian and a 2.6.7 kernel. The gnome wmanager, which I didn't much appreciate before, is much improved and I'm getting to like it a lot - beautiful design and almost as swish as the Mac interface.
Thanks to your message I managed to sort out the trackpad problem, which was indeed annoying. However, I'm not sure why you recommend pmud-utils. On attempting to install it, I saw that it wanted to to remove pbbuttonsd, which works (sort of) to control the Mac buttons. With gnome the battery indicator gives ample warning of low power and apparently pbbuttonsd has a default configuration to force an elegant shutdown if things get really critical, though I haven't dared to test it yet.
One problem which I haven't found a solution to, is no sound while using the Gnome CD player. If I rip the CD and play the ogg or mp3 files from disk, there's no problem. Have you encountered the same problem?
Another question: how do you start/stop vm/laptop_mode? I found a script a script for it, but as I am no geek, I am wary of using it as I think it is not for powerpcs. Script at: http://www.ulihansen.kick-ass.net/aero/linux/lapto p-mode/