Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-17 Thread Jason Self
On 5/16/06, Jason Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/15/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens if you do in X "xset +dpms force off" ? If that works, then > that's it. The display is turns off properly. Woo Hoo! Thank you. Well, maybe not entirely properly... I'

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-16 Thread Jason Self
On 5/15/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens if you do in X "xset +dpms force off" ? If that works, then that's it. The display is turns off properly. Woo Hoo! Thank you.

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-15 Thread Jason Self
I played with Ubuntu 5.10 in the last few days and found that it (also) properly shuts down the display. I haven't had the opportunity yet to see experiemtn and what or how its happening. Since it's based on Debian, it gives me hope. :) On 5/15/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:15 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I've tried both apmd and pmud (with pmud-utils), although the later > > complained about being installed on a desktop machine. > > Which it is, if I'm not mistaken. The message is a warning only: if you > know what you`re doing, you can

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I've tried both apmd and pmud (with pmud-utils), although the later > complained about being installed on a desktop machine. Which it is, if I'm not mistaken. The message is a warning only: if you know what you`re doing, you can go ahead and use pmud. On an old 15" flat panel iMac, I had no luck

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 23:39 -0700, Jason Self wrote: > I'm not sure how to accomplish that. I keep encountering errors saying > that it's not a normal directory. (???) > > Something like this should work, shouldn't it? > > tar --create --directory /proc --file /home/jason/proc.tar Ugh, not the w

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-07 Thread Jason Self
I'm not sure how to accomplish that. I keep encountering errors saying that it's not a normal directory. (???) Something like this should work, shouldn't it? tar --create --directory /proc --file /home/jason/proc.tar On 5/7/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you send me

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> It's easy enough to enable to the Blank Screen screensaver (in KDE > Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver), although the > faint glow of the screen remains visible because the CRT is still > consuming power. The iMac's use a weird display controller that doesn't react to normal

iMac Sleep

2006-05-07 Thread Jason Self
I'm sorry for having to post my question. My searches through Google and the Debian list archives returned no data on iMac power management. If my question's already answered somewhere & I just didn't find it, a URL would make me happy. I've finished installing Debian Sarge 3.1r2 onto an old iMac