On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:37:21PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> bigj writes:
> > We should work on this. We have been doing some work on the subject here
> > (at work), but didn't get far enough. Anyone is interested?
> Yes, I am. I'm not quite sure where to start. I was pretty disappointed
> that the _Sleep function (in macos, viewed under macsbug) is written in 68k
> asm, which I know none of. I'm about to get ahold of a reference so that'll
> be a start.
>
> > I think that power management is the most important part though. I mean
> > it's a laptop and a damn nice one so we should get that working.
> Absolutely. This is my #1 priority at the moment.
> Currently you can dim the screen, but nothing else.
>
> > I also intend to get one of the new slimmer G3s when apple releases them
> > (YEY for academic prices)...
> I believe they're out and they do kick some serious ass :)
>
> But, you're right, power manangement is essential for a laptop.
>
> > Just out of curiosity does anyone have MacOS X maybe they have power
> > management there that we can we look at code from?
> I think Paul mentioned that even though MacOS X server runs on the G3
> powerbooks, it doesn't support sleep (am I wrong here?)
Maybe someone interested in this stuff should become xfree86 member, and work
on the new 4.0 servers. To my knowledge there are only 2 ppc xfree developpers
working on it (Gerd Knorr and myself), but the new servers should handle this
kind of thing nicely.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
