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Re: Power Management for PowerBook 17



On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 20:26, eric.bachard@b.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit:
>  > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:03, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 
>  > Right now, none of the "albooks" can sleep in linux. There is no hope
>  > with the nVidia based ones,
> 
> You think of the new 12" model ?

Any model as long as it has an nVidia chip.
 
>  > There is hope for
>  > the ATI based ones as ATI so far has always been helpful, but it will
>  > take some time too. The problem, as you have guessed, is to be able to
>  > get the video chip out of sleep state, which means on those machine,
>  > basically, to re-initialize it from scratch.
> 
> I'm using such a machine under Linux (Debian Sid).
> 
> Is it possible to help you anyway, or simply to contribute ?
> I'm not a programmer (I prefer say I only know "the basis" ), but I have 
> some competences in electronics && applied physics, and I certainly can 
> do something in this domain.
> 
> If you need informations, or to do any test || debugging, for example, 
> or something that can make you "not lose" a lot of time...

Nothing right now, I'm mostly waiting for some bits from ATI at
this point.

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> eric bachard
> 
> 
> 
> BTW : I'm french (like you ?) and my english (frensh problem) is a bit 
> poor....

Pas de probleme, ca passe relativement bien :)

Ben.



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