Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Torrance
Hi Ben (and Charles), Thanks for your replies! There is currently no sleep support for G5s Suspend To Disk should be doable without too much pain though I didn't have time to do anything about it, I remember some patches were posted at one point doing at least part of the job. These ar

Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> 1) Is it possible to enable either sleep or suspend functions for the > iMac G5? I am currently running the 2.6.19 kernel, but I don't have > the slightest clue how to enable suspend or sleep. These functions > never worked in Ubuntu. Is this possible? There is currently no sleep support for G

Re: A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:39:06PM +1300, Torrance a écrit : >3) How do I install java for running, eg. internet java applets? In Ubuntu >we had to download from an IBM site. Currently, that site requires >registration and even then told me that export laws (or something) would >mea

A few questions from an iMac G5 user...

2006-12-01 Thread Torrance
Hi all, I have a few questions about running Debian PPC on my iMac G5 (rev A). I have recently switched from Ubuntu after learning that their ppc distro was in question and I'm settling in fine, but have a few queries: 1) Is it possible to enable either sleep or suspend functions for the iMac G5