Re: Waking up a Pismo PowerBook?


Subject: Re: Waking up a Pismo PowerBook?
From: Scott Frankel (leknarf@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 12:29:48 MDT


Got it! Thanks for the info!
Scott

"William J. Brinkman" wrote:

> 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?"
> > > Software Engineer | "I think so Brain, but if they
> > > called them Sad
> > > Partner Engineering | Meals kids wouldn't buy them!"
> > > Palm, Inc.
> >



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