[plug] Some debian on a G4 ibook questions

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Aug 6 17:48:24 WST 2004


Michael Holland wrote:

> > Well one more question. Has anyone got APM working on an ibook. I'm
> 
> Does the iBook have APM? Or does it use the newer ACPI?
> Or do neither of these standards apply to mac's ?

None of them apply, they have PMU instead.  IIRC the kernel has (some
of?) the G4 iBook's PMU blacklisted (i.e. will refuse to use it)
because once it goes to sleep, it never wakes up again.

Cam- read the debian-powerpc list archives! -eron.




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