In reference to last months discussion regarding the interest for a low
cost PowerPC board that can run Linux, I thought I mention that IBM has
just released the block diagram, BOM and schematics for the PowerPC
Open Platform reference board design on the following web site:
http://www.chips.ibm.c
I believe I saw this mentioned here before, but I'll bring it up again.
http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html talks about a
kernel patch to hibernate your machine completely in software.
It strikes me as being perfect for PPC owners who don't have APM
hardware. Only problem is that
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote:
> > The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why
> > you don't have it...
>
> It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter (/usr/bin/perl)
> he doesn't have yet (as it
ok, with the rash of people talking about putting their laptop screens
to sleep properly, I was wondering if anyone knows how to put a regular
display into actual "sleep" mode?
I'm not running an X11 desktop on the head of the machine, but tend to
use X servers on remote machines to get things don
Hi folks,
we're happy to announce that the Linux User Group Oldenburg is
organizing another instance of the traditional m68k hackers meeting in
Oldenburg, Germany.
The development sesstion will last two days, from 15th to 16th of
October. You're invited to arrive on the afternoon/ evening of the
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 1999, John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hmm.. no go. I'm using frame buffer acceleration in combination with
> >the ATI Rage LT Pro in my PB G3/400, and XF68_FBDev on top of that.
> >
> >Relevant output of 'xset q':
On Tue, Sep 7, 1999, John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hmm.. no go. I'm using frame buffer acceleration in combination with
>the ATI Rage LT Pro in my PB G3/400, and XF68_FBDev on top of that.
>
>Relevant output of 'xset q':
>
>Screen Saver:
> prefer blanking: yesallow exposures: yes
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Does there yet exist a way to turn off a Powerbook's LCD (ala the
> >MacOS option) when screenblanking takes effect?
>
> It should be automatic. The various video drivers used by PowerBooks
> contains calls to the PM
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