On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 01:50 -0400, Eric Pineault wrote: > Hi all, sorry for the delayed reply, thanks first of all for the > interest and time. I'm totally swamped with work this week, so will be a > bit passive, but it seems we identified a specific type of Ibook G4, > revision 1.1. Sleep works on revision 1.2 but not on ours. > I also am ready and willing to try any patched kernel that could get > this machine to sleep.
How do you actually differenciate Rev 1.1 from Rev 1.2 ? What information in the device-tree or /proc/cpuinfo do you use for differenciating them ?? Note that I'll get access to one of these tomorrow (the same one I used to do the initial sleep work) thanks to Rob Weir, so maybe I'll be able to figure something out. > On the Ubutnu list here's what's been done up to now: > > "hey guys, > While I'm looking around in an attempt to build the kernel 2.6.12-rc2 > from http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ > I found a site that claims to have the same ibook that we have and > claims he has sleep working. He says we have to build a 2.6.11 kernel > and apply a particular patch. > > http://www.aronchi.org/LinuxOnIBookG4 " > > If you go to the http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic....ight=benh+patch > that is linked from the above site, you'll realize that you'll see that > the gentoo 2.6.11 sources probibly have the patch applied, so you start > there if you know where to get it. > > About that gentoo howTo, I posted a question as to where the gentoo > 2.6.11 is available and what version he used. The gentoo version of > 2.6.11 might be important since the linked gentoo forum suggested that > the 2.6.11 was patched." > > Well that's where things stand at the moment... > > Any suggestions welcome, > > otherwise I'll have to by a second Ibook... ; ) > > Eric P > > > ps I can't send stuff top the Debian PPC list... doesn't get their, though > I'm a registered user of the list... > > -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
