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

[dylan]

all pci based powermacs have power managment units - or at least that can be
put to sleep from the macos...


d

on 02.9.4 9:57 PM, Rick Thomas at rbthomas55@pobox.com wrote:

> 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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