On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >Actually, this is true for the Wallstreet, but not for the Lombard
> >(and probably the Pismo). MacOS supports operation while closed on
> >the Lombard.
> >
> >What you do is put the machine to sleep, plug in an external keyboard,
> >and push the power button on the keyboard to wake it up.
>
> Well, one difference is that MacOS has some temperature management that
> we don't have.
>
> Also, I think I remember reading an Apple TIL article saying that newer
> machine do let you run with the lid closed, but that it was not
> encouraged by Apple to do so because of those heat problems.
>
> Ben.
I've run my Lombard closed with linux for an hour at a time with no
trouble. I just kill pmud and close it. I usually turn my backlight
all the way down first...
I was unaware of any temperature management in MacOS (I thought it was
controlled in hardware), but if it exists i'd be interested in
implementing something to control it. I'd like to be able to turn my fan
on at a lower temperature then is the hardware default. Do you know
anything about the interface to such things?
--
-John
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