You wrote 
> There _might_ be a way to turn the screen ON or OFF but that's definitely
> not sure ;)

I understand that.  Fortunately, this machine isn't on the net
so I can live with booting into OSX for long runs but...

> If it's an "old style" iMac, which has no real deep sleep, then there
> may be some hope. On a Core99 machine, I'm afraid it may not be
> possible. All I have in mind that could be tried is to put the video
> controller to suspend mode via PCI power management.
> 
> What is the /proc/cpuinfo of this your box ?

As said, a Ruby (the one without DVD, on principles):

processor       : 0
cpu             : 750
temperature     : 0 C
clock           : 400MHz
revision        : 131.0
bogomips        : 797.90
zero pages      : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/390 (0%)
machine         : PowerMac2,2
motherboard     : PowerMac2,2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
L2 cache        : 512K unified
memory          : 128MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld


ralf

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