El vie, 07-11-2003 a las 09:01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:03, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Could someone tell me if the new powerbook series (17 inch) still use > > pmud for it's power mangement ?? > > pmud has nothing to do with what machine you are using. It's mostly > monitoring the lid state and eventually asks the kernel to put the > machine to sleep... > > Wether sleep is supported or not is a feature of the kernel. > > Right now, none of the "albooks" can sleep in linux. There is no hope > with the nVidia based ones, at least not for a long time, though I may > "workaround" this by implementing suspend-to-disk. 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. Hmmm I don't know if it's the same, but my imac 15" flat panel with a Nvidia GeForce2 MX can sleep in linux and comebacks without problems... Why should be different the NVidia "albooks"? Cheers. > > Ben -- Carlos Perelló Marín Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC) Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos@pemas.net || mailto:carlos@gnome.org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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