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