Nice work! :) And ppc-related questions

[Germano Rizzo]

Hi!
	first of all, I wanted to congratulate on your good work. It was a 
great surprise to see a new distro for ppc, full of up-to-date packages, 
and an even greater one to see that it works (almost everything) out of 
the box... after much fiddling with crazy installations, your installer 
was a breathe of fresh air. I am looking forward for the stable release.

I have a powerbook g4 1ghz 12", and ubuntu linux works very well! I am 
really going to stick to it, after changing so many distro in the last 
year... btw, compliments on how it autodetects the nvidia graphic card, 
with other distros it has been a complete pain. And the cpu frequency 
scaling is enabled, too! :)

All this said, I have some problems that maybe you'll be able to help me 
solve:

(1) when, on installation, I select the "it" keyboard (I can't remember 
the code, maybe mac-usb-it) the keys are all mixed. For instance, when I 
press "m" it produces a ",". Debian ppc also have this flaw; it's not a 
big deal, I had just to select an us one and it works ok, but it's quite 
annoying the first time.

(2) when I start Gnome as unprivileged user, a popup appears saying 
"Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken". Actually, I can't get any 
pmu-related function to work. The permissions were 0600, I changed to 
0666 and it works ok, tough I can't still get it to sleep correctly. Is 
it the correct way to do?

(3) the softkeys (brightness hi/lo, volume hi/lo, eject) aren't working. 
Most surprisingly, the mute one does. I configured them from the 
keyboard preferences, and the volume controls are ok, but bright up/down 
don't actually do anything on the brightness. Maybe the monitor can't be 
faded? Is this a fault of the video drivers?

(4) does anyone know if there is some remote possibility that in this 
world or on another one the Airport Extreme card will ever be supported? 
If not, can someone advice me an USB 802.11b wireless interface 
supported by linux?

(5) will mac-on-linux ever be officially distributed with ubuntu 
packages? It would be ver useful. Can I use the debian packages?

	Keep on with the good work, and thanks so much!
		Germano Rizzo