Powerbook G4 Sleep

brianm · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: Powerbook G4 Sleep

I was curious as to if sleep will ever be supported on the albook. What is it that prevents sleep? Is it something with the video card? I'm just wondering if it's a matter of time or if sleep won't ever be supported.

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blue.sca · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject:

sleep looks good on a 2.6.9 kernel, rumours said. could not yet test it, but with little 'hacking' sleep should work now...
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tomasino · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject:

Just a word: RADEONFB

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brianm · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

mattmatteh · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 449 Location: near chicago

i ordered a g4 ibook and should be a day or two. some say the sleep works, from #gentoo. i wont know till i test it. does the sleep work in console, X, both, none? i use this at school in between classes and having to shut down all the time would suck, quiting X and going to console to sleep would be ok. then just startx, less time than reboot.

matt

colinleroy · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 50

I fail to see *anything* related to ibook G4 sleep (nor PB G4) in the latest bitkeeper changelogs. What kind of rumors are these?

mattmatteh · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 449 Location: near chicago

i havent checked the bitkeeper change logs, i have been in #gentoo and only one or two people say they have got it to work. when i get my new ibook and install gentoo, i will find out for myself

matt

brianm · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject:

silian87 · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

I talked with Benh, lu_zero and Puggy (gentoo developers and ppc kernel developer), and all said that the problem is radeonfb and now sleep dom't work on r350 ati powerbook (15-17 al) only for ati problem.
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brianm · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

So it is now supported on albooks without ati cards?
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silian87 · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject:

I think yes. Try to use kernel >= 2.6.7 with udev, pbbuttonsd powerprefs and you can try pmud too.
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spyro1st · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

Hi,

i have the Alu PowerBook 12" with the nvidia bases graphic card. My question now is:

Is sleep now supported on this machine? I tried it with the 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 kernel and pbbuttonsd 0.6.4 but allways get :

Sep 4 02:54:52 spy pmud[7313]: going to sleep
Sep 4 02:54:52 spy pmud[7313]: cannot put system to sleep! (Function not implemented)
Sep 4 02:54:52 spy kernel: Sleep mode not supported on this machine

in my syslog.

Am i miss something or is it just not supported yet?

Thanks for replies.

Greets Kevin Moschallski

brianm · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

Not working on my nvidia albook either. Same results. I don't know what the rumor was all about.
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mattmatteh · Guru Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 449 Location: near chicago

brianm
what do you have?
powerbook?
nvidia radeon?

brianm · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:37 am Post subject:

rev. 3 aluminum powerbook w/ nvidia
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gwright · n00b Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 21 Location: London, UK

The nvidia based PowerBooks have absolutely no hope of getting sleep to work as nvidia won't give out any specs regarding waking the chip up again.

With radeonfb, however, ATI have been willing to give the specs in the past, but it normally takes a long time, iirc.

brianm · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

thanks for the info
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micron · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject:

The only thing avaiable at this moment is suspend
Take a look at this thread on gentoo forums, or to this one on debian ml.

I'm going to try suspend, I'll let you now how it works on ly ibook G4 with radeon video card
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silian87 · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject:

I tried it... I can't compile the kernel! There are a lot of problem to patch the kernel if tou use bootplash, anyway, I get an error compiling the kernel! It is frustrating! :cry:

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brianm · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject:

That sounds pretty promising once some of the bugs get worked out. It's not sleep, but I be very happy with it. I'll try to get it working once I get home.

btw, thanks for the links
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