iMac/nvidia & sleep
Still no sleep for my flat-panel iMac (G4) monitor. The screen turns
green. This is under Sarge with XFree86-4.3.0 and an nVidia GeForce2
MX/MX 400 card. It's unclear to me, from browsing through the list
archive, whether it's possible to get the monitor to sleep and if so,
what to use.
In this message:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/02/msg00695.html
Carlos Marín says sleep works on this machine with pmud (which aptitude
indicates is for PowerBooks), but he's using a different kernel, and his
message is almost 2 years old. And in another message on that same
2-year-old thread, Benh indicates that the video chip is the problem and
says there's little or no hope for nVidia based machines.
There's another package, powerpc-utils, that conflicts with pmud. I
don't know which might be worth trying, or if either would do any good,
or if I'd need some kernel patch, or if, two years later, it's still
hopeless. Any enlightenment on how to make this monitor go dark?
--
Michael
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