Re: Waking up a Pismo PowerBook?


Subject: Re: Waking up a Pismo PowerBook?
From: William J. Brinkman (brinkman@CS.Princeton.EDU)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 10:32:31 MDT


Use /sbin/clock to set the hardware clock. This works just the same as
hwclock on intel machines. If you have the date set correctly, you can
just do
/sbin/clock --systohc
which sets the hardware clock from the system clock.

Bo

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Scott Frankel wrote:

>
> If you get any info on waking a sleeping Pismo, I'd be very interested
> as well.
>
> I'm also running YDL2.0 on a Pismo. The one thing I've learned so
> far is never let the thing go to sleep! Not exactly convenient for a
> laptop.
>
> On a related not, whenever my machine crashes (from sleeping, lack
> of battery juice, &c.), the clock gets reset to 1904. Have you found
> a way to reset the system clock under Linux? "Date -set" works
> only until a reboot. It'd be nice not to have to go back into MacOS
> just to set the clock.
>
> Thanks
> Scott
>
>
> Bruce Thompson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I've got a Pismo PowerBook (G3, 2000) running YDL 2.0. My plan is
> > to have it running primarily Linux and run MacOS via MOL. Though I'm
> > having some configuration issues with MOL, that's not the problem I
> > need help with right now.
> >
> > The trouble I'm having is that whenever I put the PowerBook to
> > sleep by closing the lid I can't seem to get the darn thing to wake
> > up again! I've only done this from X-Windows, not from a text console
> > so I cannot say if this is X specific or not. I'm running the default
> > 2.2.19 kernel; sound appears badly broken under 2.4.X so I'm waiting
> > on that for a while (unless someone has some staggering insight!)
> >
> > Any advise, commiseration, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bruce.
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Bruce Thompson | "Pinkie! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
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>



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