Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:39:06PM +1300, Torrance a écrit : 3) How do I install java for running, eg. internet java applets? In Ubuntu we had to download from an IBM site. Currently, that site requires registration and even then told me that export laws (or something) would mean

Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1) Is it possible to enable either sleep or suspend functions for the iMac G5? I am currently running the 2.6.19 kernel, but I don't have the slightest clue how to enable suspend or sleep. These functions never worked in Ubuntu. Is this possible? There is currently no sleep support for

Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Torrance
Hi Ben (and Charles), Thanks for your replies! There is currently no sleep support for G5s Suspend To Disk should be doable without too much pain though I didn't have time to do anything about it, I remember some patches were posted at one point doing at least part of the job. These

A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-01 Thread Torrance
Hi all, I have a few questions about running Debian PPC on my iMac G5 (rev A). I have recently switched from Ubuntu after learning that their ppc distro was in question and I'm settling in fine, but have a few queries: 1) Is it possible to enable either sleep or suspend functions for the iMac