ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine turns itself off even though I have lot's of life left in the battery. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Chris
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
On 02 Dec 2004 at 05h12, Christopher Molnar wrote: Hi, I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine turns itself off even though I have lot's of life left in the battery. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. -- Colin
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:57, Christopher Molnar wrote: I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine turns itself off even though I have lot's of life left in the battery. They are designed to do this to dissipate the heat. If you need the machine to run with the lid closed, you need a PowerBook. I don't think it's wise trying to find a way around it, since you will probably fry the machine (particularly as it seems to run much hotter whilst running Linux than OS X). -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org pgpfu0yOhLaBR.pgp Description: PGP signature
ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine turns itself off even though I have lot's of life left in the battery. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Chris
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:02 am, Colin Leroy wrote: Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. Sorry - I haven't been following the lists -- Ben's sleep patch? What and where can I get? Thanks, -Chris
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 06:17 -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:02 am, Colin Leroy wrote: Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. Sorry - I haven't been following the lists -- Ben's sleep patch? What and where can I get? Thanks, -Chris http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/albook-ibookg4-sleep-6.diff This is the latest one he posted. works nice. (its for the 2.6.9 sources) this is my .config: http://www.gtnw.de/~tr/config-2.6.9 greetz Timo
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
Op donderdag 02 december 2004 12:10, schreef Chris Howells: They are designed to do this to dissipate the heat. If you need the machine to run with the lid closed, you need a PowerBook. I have a new PowerBook which behaves the same. Is there a way to deactivate this behaviour on Linux? greets, Pim -- Lingewoud B.V.| Tel. +31 418 663963 Maasdijk 4| Fax. +31 418 663053 5328 BG Rossum| [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Netherlands | www.lingewoud.com
Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control
[ posting to you too, since i dont know if you are subsccribed ] On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:57:56AM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine turns itself off even though I have lot's of life left in the battery. Can anyone point me in the right direction? The nature of the problem is not known. However, search the archives 2-3 days ago and you will find a link (test patch 5 or 6) for sleep mode. We are testing a patch provided by super-benh which allows the white beast to go to bed gracefully. -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.4.27|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself. --Narrator (The usual suspects)
