On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 01:25 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote: > > 1. suspend/hibernate does not work really: I get after a while just a > locked desktop. I remember well, I read somewhere that > suspend/hibernate does not work on powerpc. Is it true? I think it > works on PowerPC Laptop, why not on Desktop?
For sleep (suspend to RAM), IIRC simply because noone's implemented the PMU/SMU support necessary for it. Not sure what the issue is for hibernation. The linuxppc-dev mailing list might be better for finding out more about this. > 2. Restart works ok, but shutdown does not work properly (from gnome > or from terminal). The last messages I get are: > [1990.045234] Disabling non-boot CPUs > [1990.053558] Cannot set affinity for irq 16 > I must then press the power button. If I wait longer, the fans start to > be quite loud (again I had this problem also with another similar > PowerMac G5) I think this is a kernel bug which is fixed in newer kernels. > 3. Last problem: I can watch .avi files, but doesn't matter which > player I do use, it happens that the movie stops, I can't access my > desktop anymore, but the audio is still on... I had a look on various > logs, but I did not find anything interesting Sounds like a GPU lockup, which video card / X driver are you using? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
