Re: stranded Ibook g4 users
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 01:50 -0400, Eric Pineault wrote:
> Hi all, sorry for the delayed reply, thanks first of all for the
> interest and time. I'm totally swamped with work this week, so will be a
> bit passive, but it seems we identified a specific type of Ibook G4,
> revision 1.1. Sleep works on revision 1.2 but not on ours.
> I also am ready and willing to try any patched kernel that could get
> this machine to sleep.
How do you actually differenciate Rev 1.1 from Rev 1.2 ? What
information in the device-tree or /proc/cpuinfo do you use for
differenciating them ??
Note that I'll get access to one of these tomorrow (the same one I used
to do the initial sleep work) thanks to Rob Weir, so maybe I'll be able
to figure something out.
> On the Ubutnu list here's what's been done up to now:
>
> "hey guys,
> While I'm looking around in an attempt to build the kernel 2.6.12-rc2
> from http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/
> I found a site that claims to have the same ibook that we have and
> claims he has sleep working. He says we have to build a 2.6.11 kernel
> and apply a particular patch.
>
> http://www.aronchi.org/LinuxOnIBookG4 "
>
> If you go to the http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic....ight=benh+patch
> that is linked from the above site, you'll realize that you'll see that
> the gentoo 2.6.11 sources probibly have the patch applied, so you start
> there if you know where to get it.
>
> About that gentoo howTo, I posted a question as to where the gentoo
> 2.6.11 is available and what version he used. The gentoo version of
> 2.6.11 might be important since the linked gentoo forum suggested that
> the 2.6.11 was patched."
>
> Well that's where things stand at the moment...
>
> Any suggestions welcome,
>
> otherwise I'll have to by a second Ibook... ; )
>
> Eric P
>
>
> ps I can't send stuff top the Debian PPC list... doesn't get their, though I'm a registered user of the list...
>
>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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