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D3C3PT1ON · Joined:Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:16 am Posts:3

Hi i was planning on installing linux on my Apple PowerBook G4 Aluminum. And one of my question was when reading this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Which%20Macs%20are%20compatible%20with%20Ubuntu? its says "Powerbook G4 models with the Nvidia graphics chip: sleep is not possible, because of insufficient hardware information from Nvidia." and i was wondering if that also applies to MintPPC or if has been fix thanks.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2742

Well, MintPPC is based on Debian Squeeze. The information you read is pretty old. Ubuntu does not support PowerPC for a long time. I would just try it out yourself. My guess is, we are now 3 years down the line, that the sleep problem has been fixed by now. What do you have to lose? OSX support for PPC based Macs is over anyway.

D3C3PT1ON · Joined:Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:16 am Posts:3

Yah thats true and that was one of the reason why i wanted to switch to linux. I will go try it this weekend once i find time. I will post back and see if it works.

thepotatobasher · Joined:Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:01 am Posts:8

i've been trying to get sleep to work on my powerbook g4. didn't work right after install. I did have it working right with ubuntu 9.4 and mint 8.0
just installed cpudyn so maybe that will fix it. It's supposed to fix 'standby'

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2742

interesting, let us know your findings please. You have pbbuttonsd installed ?

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2742

I read some problems with 12 inch G4 PowerBooks having nVidia video cards. This script might help you:
http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Suspend_to_ ... 4_12_.html

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2742

What happens if you do:

Code:

sudo pm-suspend

There are some quirks with video cards, e.g. when your monitor stays black, the card is not resumed. You might want to do:

Code:

sudo pm-suspend --quirk-vbe-post

see

Code:

man pm-suspend

thepotatobasher · Joined:Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:01 am Posts:8

pm-suspend seems to work. hibernate and suspend just put the computer into a screen saver and when i close the laptop lid the screen is still backlit and the harddrives are still spinning.

I imagine a lot of my problems are due to accidentally updating to unstable though

D3C3PT1ON · Joined:Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:16 am Posts:3

yah just installed it today and when i close the laptop the backlight turns off but the harddrive is still running. anyway of fixing it?

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2742

just do it manually:

Code:

pm-suspend

Can you file a Debian bug report about this? We want to make Debian better for PPC, right?