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[o jordan <ojordan12345@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MintPPC adds pmu-battery and i2c-dev to everyone's /etc/modules file (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11572808&postcount=6 ); which is a rubbish solution - a bodge - because there are lots of computers that don't need these modules.  What should happen is the package hw-detect should identify these modules are needed.  It's actually probably quite easy to come up with a patch for the discover-mac-io.sh file (he says not having looked into it), but without the hardware to try stuff out on then it's hard to do.  People who have this hardware will have to come up with the proper patch i.e. you.   The PowerPC FAQ has instructions to add these modules to /etc/modules and as long as people spend the time to read the FAQ then I don't see it as a massive problem.  I add pmu_battery to get my battery working; it takes at the most 10 seconds of my life which is considerably shorter than investigating a patch for hw-detect.  I'm not dismissing this as a problem I'm just saying it is way down on the list of my priorities for my life (and since I don't use i2c-dev I cannot come up with a patch for that). It's probably quite a nice little project for somebody to take on if they are looking to get into linux development.  4 lines of code should do it.
 > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:40:32 +0100
> From: uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Sleep key & Close lid do not work - 12.04 Lubuntu	ppc
> 
> I think i've found just one point. I looked into the
> `/etc/modules`file which came by default with mintppc11 and it had
> pretty much more than the corrispondent file of lubuntu. Now i copied
> the missing issues from the mint modules to lubuntu modules and,
> voilà, things seem to work better. The additional statements were:
> 
> ----
> loop
> pmu_battery
> i2c-dev
> ----
> 
> Some linux expert should take care, i'm really guessing in the dark ;-)
> 
> As for the fan control i found this advice somewhere:
> 
> "# modprobe therm_adt746x fan_speed=66 limit_adjust=6"
> 
> which seems quite reasonable to me. But i did not understand, where
> this statements could be installed to be "stable"; in the modules file
> after "therm_adt746x" ?
> 
> 2012/2/21 Maps Backward <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:12 AM, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> May be, it is not a Lubuntu ppc but an Ubuntu ppc problem. But a
> >> problem it remains.
> >
> >
> > Sounds like there's a bunch of things that really need a check against
> > Ubuntu ppc. Do you have the capacity to give it a shot? Until the ISOs
> > become appropriately sized (or I try messing with forcing them to burn on a
> > standard CD which is only a possibility) I'm out of the running.
> 
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