Hey all, So, since every problem I had on the Mac Mini had been solved (ha!) I decided that I needed to make more work for myself by figuring out how to get it to conserve electricity and manage its power.
I was running 2.16.19-rc6 patched with the relevant mactel patches. In preparation, I patched 2.16.20.1 and got that working with my basic config [1]. Has anyone gotten any kind of sleep/suspend working on a Mac Mini? I had initially assumed that ACPI was the way to go, but based on the comments in menuconfig [2,3,4] maybe I was wrong. It seems like enabling SMP support for the Core Duo processor basically nixes my ability to enable CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP or CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND. This is strange since I hear a lot about people's Core 2 Duo machines sleeping, but at least for me menuconfig is not interested in letting me turn those symbols on. If anyone has done this, or has any experience with these features to give me some guidance, that would be great. I don't have much experience with power management under Linux (which is probably obvious). Thanks, -- Erik [1] I can provide this on request. [2] CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND depends on: !X86_VOYAGER && PM && SWAP && (X86 && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP) || || (FRV || PPC32) && !SMP) [3] CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP depends on: !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !IA64_HP_SIM && (IA64 || X86) && ACPI && X86 && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP) && PM [4] based on my analysis of [3] and [4], software suspend is definitely not possible with SMP enabled. If I could figure out where to turn on SUSPEND_SMP then maybe I could try ACPI_SLEEP, but it is nowhere to be found and defaults to '=n'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
