Power Magagement: Putting a Biege G3 in sleep/suspend mode

[Rick Thomas]

What you want may not be possible...

Are you sure the beige G3 has a power management unit?

Can you put it to sleep when it's running MacOS?

Rick

Jean Boucher wrote:
> 
> Searched the archive for something related to this
> topic. Only found something on the Titanium, not the
> biege G3. I sent this on the newbie list back on Aug
> 16, but haven't gotten any replies yet. Thiought I'd
> try it on this general list.
> 
> Has anyone found how to get a biege G3 (OldWorld)
> PowerMac running YDL 2.3 to go into sleep or suspend
> power-saving mode? I tried reconfiguring the kernel
> looking for any reference to APM or Power Management.
> All I found so far are the man pages for pmud, which
> appears to be only for the PowerBooks/iBooks. Is that
> true? If so, dare I hope for an enhancement that will
> support PowerMacs other than laptops?
> 
> Whenever I run "pmud -d" I get:
> pmud[1722]: pmud [treshold = 420, margin = 15] started
> pmud[1722]: opening /dev/adb
> pmud[1722]: opening /dev/pmu
> pmud[1722]: Couldn't open /dev/pmu or /dev/misc/pmu
> pmud[1722]: daemon stopped (Couldn't open /dev/pmu or
> /dev/misc/pmu)
> 
> even though /dev/pmu is there
> crw-------    1 root     root      10, 154 Mar 10
> 08:09 /dev/pmu
> 
> Do I have any hope in getting this G3 to sleep? Thanks
> in advance.
> Jean.
> 
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