[gentoo-ppc-dev] pbbutonsd stability?

[Thanh Ly]

I've been using pbbutonsd 0.5.3a, I realize it's masked as ~ppc but when
I was installing Gentoo on my iBook for one reason or another I was
using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc".

At first everything great, I was a happy Gentoo iBook user for a few
weeks. In the last week or so I've been having stability problems. First
of all, I had recompiled my kernel to make one adjustment that would
allow me to use /proc/cpufreq to manual scale my CPU speed. I started
experiencing random lock ups after doing this so I reverted back to my
previous kernel (I had renamed it to vmlinux.old) that worked fine for
another few days then again it froze on me tonight.

I just commented out ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc" from make.conf and emerged
pbbuttonsd which downgraded me to version 0.5.2-r1 then rebooted.

So I'm trying to narrow this down to figure out what the problem is. I'm
suspecting pbbuttonsd simply because I have it setup to take over for
pmud (not used but installed) in regards to power management. And I
stopped tinkering with CPU scaling, but support for CPU scaling is still
enabed in my kernel, just not that other option that allows me to use
/proc/cpufreq.

I'll keep going and see if I get another freeze up. Do you guys think I
should just recompile my kernel and remove CPU scaling altogether? It's
not like I can use it anyways.

Thanks for any feedback.

Thanh


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