Subject: Re: Sleep and Afterstep
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 19:18:24 MDT
I figured this one out, and I thought I should post what I found in case
anyone else has similar problems...
As it turns out, it has to do with the battery. I have my install on an
expansion bay hard drive. So, for the install, I had the drive and my
cd-rom drive in, not the battery. It suddenly occured to me that the
snooze command was part of the power managment package, and, as such, it
might not like there not being a bettery. So, I put the battery back in
and tried to put it to sleep again. This time, there was no problem. It
has now been up and down a number of times, and I still haven't had a
problem, so I think this was indeed the problem.
<Hey, Paul, this might be something to include on your web page about
getting sleep to work, it being the best site I know of for info about
linux on a powerbook...>
-Christopher
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Black wrote:
> Sleep
> =====
>
> So, I have a 266Mhz G3 powerbook that I am working on. On the YDL site, it
> claims that sleep isn't supported on my machine. However, it worked fine
> under 1.2.1. I could run snooze, or I could just close the lid and my
> machine would happily go to sleep, just like under the MacOS. I never had
> a problem.
>
> Thus, when I installed 2.0, even though I had read that sleep wasn't
> supported, I thought nothing of closing the lid and putting it to sleep.
> Later, when I woke it up, it looked fine, however when I tired to do
> something in the terminal window, it never returned. SO, I tried to use
> the KDE panel, and the whole thing froze up on me.
>
> So, being a stubborn bastard, I tried several variations, I tried closing
> the lid while in KDE, while just in terminal mode, and finally completely
> logged out, but I had similar results every time. So, (it only occured to
> me at this point), I checked to make sure that pmud was installed and
> snooze was in my path. That was all fine, so I tried just running all of
> the above again with snooze instead of closing the cover. Same results.
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