On Fre, 2012-05-11 at 16:31 +0200, e20100633 wrote: > > I successfully installed Debian Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-powerpc) on a > iMac G4. This is my first installation of Debian on a Apple desktop > computer. I have few question about it. The first one is about > hibernation (suspend-to-ram). I am unable to do it at all. > > I'm trying to do it with pm-suspend; but the command doesn't do anything > and return no errors (even in /var/log/{messages|syslog}). After some > research I found that I may not have suspend-to-ram: > > # echo -n mem > /sys/power/state > bash: echo: write error: No such device > # cat /sys/power/state > disk > > Plus, trying with hal-system-power-pmu return an error too: > > /usr/lib/hal# ./hal-system-power-pmu sleep > power-pmu : PMU_IOC_SLEEP failed
This means sleep (aka suspend to RAM) is not supported on your machine. Support for it has never been implemented for any non-laptop Apple PowerPC machines. Note that 'hibernation' usually refers to suspend to disk. It might be possible to get that working, but there's probably some gotchas as well. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336749347.7335.146.camel@thor.local