Re: PowerBook G4 and powermanagement
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:50:10AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi. I can't comment o Gerfried's problems, but I have two things which
> are severely annoying in a recent Debian install:
>
> * suspend to RAM only works with kernel 2.6.21 (I tried the one that is
> shipped with Debian).
>
> Upgrading to the 2.6.22 (which is in unstable) or compiling my own
> 2.6.23-rc3 (taken from kernel.org) doesn't let me sleep: it
> unfortunately doesn't seem (at least with the 23-rc3 kernel) related
> to X, since I booted into single user mode and still couldn't sleep.
>
> All that I got were some green letters saying that the computer were
> going to sleep on a console/framebuffer and then, immediately, I saw
> that the ethernet got upped again, the ide drive was reconfigured with
> DMA etc, like if I waked up the computer (but I didn't, of course).
It works on my Powerbook 5,8 with 2.6.23-rc3. So this is probably
specific to your hardware and not a general powerpc or PowerBook G4
problem.
Gaudenz
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