20040901 install notes on Powerbook

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:31:00AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:23:45PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > o I was prompted for whether or not I wanted to use firewire ethernet?
> >   I thought we'd disabled that...
> 
> It was discussed and generally agreed, but it wasn't actually implemented.
> 
> Colin, can you make the d-i changes?  I can fix hotplug.

Done.

> > o base-config talks about setting root password in it's introductory
> >   dialog but our installation process doesn't do this anymore.
> 
> Good catch; that needs to be fixed.

Could somebody file a bug, please?

> > o <whine>Wrong permission for /dev/pmu device</whine> in gnome still.
> 
> I was under the impression that it was wrong for the desktop user to have
> access to /dev/pmu.  Is this not correct?

That's entirely correct; GNOME should shut up. :-) pbbuttonsd probably
needs to grow some kind of interface so that GNOME can do what it needs
to do via it.

> > o Still no 2nd/3rd mouse button mappings for powerbooks.
> 
> They have multiple mouse buttons now? :-P

The powerpc kernel has a system for mapping keypresses to act like the
second and third mouse buttons.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]