Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >Yup, that was it. No more purple haze effects. However sleep is
> >unreliable at best. It usually fails to wakeup properly most times I
> >attempt it. No screen, no disk, green sleep light stops, but nothing
> >happens.
>
> Keep up to date with rsync. The current tree works just fine on my
> Pismo and most other testers using Pismos, iMacs or iBooks. The only
> one known to still cause problems is the TiPb.
>
> If you still have problems, then tell me more about your HW: how
> much RAM do you have, any other device ? (like non-apple device in
> the media bay ? anything connected to the USB ?).
>
> It's possible that sleep in linux still eats more power than sleep
> in MacOS 9.0. That means that if you are running on battery and you
> keep the powerbook sleeping a _long_ time, it might not wakeup due
> to lack of power. I didn't have time yet to do actual measurements
> to see how much power is consumed during sleep. It's definitely a lot
> less than full wakeup, but probably more than macos sleep.
>From my experience with the iBook sleep a couple of months ago, I think
it is actually possible to plug some juice back in and wake the machine
up. At that point I experienced some video garbling, but nothing else.
It was enough for me to close down the applications and restart the
computer in a clean state.
Cheers
--
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
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