Re: Etch - iBook G4 - no sleep
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Typhoon wrote:
> OK, thanks to everyone.
>
> I reinstalled from the main Debian disk #1 and 'sleep' now works, but
> only from the Power Icon on the top panel.
>
> I presume there is some gdm config that I need to do to get the various
> options to show up when using the shutdown menus from the Desktop menu.
I'm not sure on this one. The buttons don't show up in the session
logout/shutdown boxes in Etch but once I upgrade to unstable I get them.
I don't know if these features were actually added in post-2.14 GNOME
or just defaults were changed.
> Anyway, it works now, even if I don't know why.
You're not alone. I have some considerable experience getting broken
sleep to work on x86 laptops and even desktops but on my Powerbook5,7
sleep has always worked, even though I don't understand what exactly HAL
and gnome-power-manager are doing--there is no /etc/acpi directory here :P
suspend-to-disk is not working for me in recent kernels. I'm on 2.6.21
but I think I've observed this issue with 2.6.18. The system goes
through it's usual sequence of freezing tasks, freeing memory, and then
writing the pages to disk, but before it shuts off there are several
BUG() stack traces--at least I think they are BUG()s, they flash by too
fast as the machine shuts off seconds later as expected--and I notice
the source code mentioned in the stack trace lives under arch/powerpc,
hinting at a PowerPC-specific bug in suspend-to-disk in Linux. If you
don't prevent it via boot parameters, the machine will attempt to resume
after being powered up again, but it will just hang after finishing
reading the pages from disk.
Andrew
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
>> johannes
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