Re: powersaving on NW iMac?

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > In MacOS, the monitor does turn off when the computer is put to sleep.
> > There's no way to do this in Linux currently (the PowerBook pmu code
> > doesn't support sleep on iMacs).
> 
> it probably just cuts power entirely to the monitor tube itself,
> rather a kludge but...  putting the entire machine to sleep is not as
> advantagous as just putting the monitor to sleep as full sleep will
> screw up cron, remote logins etc etc.  

Having more complete PMU support for the iMac might solve this - if
there's a way to shut down the monitor for sleep, there should be a way to
do the same without the sleep. 

That's all assuming screen power is managed by the PMU - for the Pismo,
it's the Rage128 itself that controls things like backlight power. What
happens if you use the Pismo screen powerdown function on an iMac? 

	Michael