Xubuntu PPC issues
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- Plan of Action for Finalizing the Linux PPC Project
- Fleshing out the Issues Matrix
- Filling in all cells
- Linking to existing documentation
- Identifying and developing documentation and procedures for all known issues
- Validating issues identified
- Developing long-term/robust fixes over hacks
- Developing Mac Build procedures, checklists
Issue Relevance Matrix
G4 | G5 | ||||||||||||
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iBook | Powerbook | Mini | Lamp | Tower | iMac | Tower | |||||||
4,1 4,2 | other | 3,2 | 3,3 3,4 3,5 | 5,1 6,1 6,2 6,4 | 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5 | 6,8 | 5,6 5,7 5,8 5,9 | 10,1 10,2 | |||||
Video:Rage128 | Y | - | Y | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Video:Nvidia | - | - | - | - | Y | - | Y | - | - | ||||
Video:Radeon | - | Y | - | Y | - | Y | - | Y | Y | ||||
Audio:snd-aoa | Y | Y | |||||||||||
Wifi: b43 driver | |||||||||||||
CPU scaling/ fan control | |||||||||||||
Display sleep/suspend | |||||||||||||
Trackpad: Right-click emulation | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
Trackpad: smooth appletouch driver | Y | ||||||||||||
Battery monitor (module pmu_battery) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Video
Audio
Wireless
BCM4306
The BCM4306 wireless card is a known troublemaker. However, the b43
driver has vastly improved over the last couple of years and should support this chip without issue. We'll just need to add the appropriate repository. Run the following in a terminal:
sudo -i cat << EOF >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/b43.list deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ precise multiverse deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ precise multiverse EOF apt-get update && apt-get purge -y bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
And reboot the system.
Power
Battery Monitor
To enable the battery monitor for the current session:
sudo modprobe pmu_battery
To enable it permanently for all sessions, edit the file /etc/modules:
sudo nano /etc/modules
or
gksudo gedit /etc/modules
and add the following line:
pmu_battery
Save and exit, and battery monitor should work on reboot.
Input Devices
Right Click
Ubuntu's default right-click is F12, which is unorthodox and inconvenient. To add the customary MacOSX key control-click, edit the file /etc/default/mouseemu:
sudo nano /etc/default/mouseemu
and uncomment the line
RIGHT_CLICK="-right 29 272"
Reboot to enable the new right-click mapping.