Re: Poor suspend life on Powerbook G4 (5,2)
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 19:04 +0100, Timo Reimerdes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just discussing Linux as an OS on my mac with a friend who is
> running debian on his iBook for ages. He mentioned that when suspended
> his iBook lasts about 5 days! Mine will run out of battery power within
> two and a half days. I am currently running ubuntu-hoary and a
> 2.6.9-ppc-sleep7 kernel (2.6.9 with the sleep patch from benh).
>
> Could a current kernel increase my battery life (under OSX I can suspend
> alot longer times!)?
Can you confirm that OS X allows you to suspend a lot longer ?
The main problem is that we don't have documentation on all that OS X
does to the HW and Apple keeps some critical bits of source code closed,
so it's difficult to do as good as OS X.
Ben.
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