12" PB sleep?
Aaron Hsu
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun May 4 09:48:00 2003
As far as switching monitors is concerned, are you sure that there is no
way you can't edit the X settings to make it change displays? I have
this problem with my iBook and I would really like to fix it. But there
has to be a way to fix it right?
On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 09:32, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> On 2 May 2003, Owen Stampflee wrote:
> >Sleep is still not supported on the 12" PB due to that damn nvidia
> >graphics chip. there are some pbbuttons/pmud options though cant greatly
> >lower power energy while the machine is not in use.
>
> That's what I suspected. If this is the case, then the Terra Soft folks
> might want to change this page a bit:
>
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/index.php?submit=hardware&submitimg[hardware][apple]=1
>
> as it could be seen as a bit misleading (if sleep isn't supported that
> is).
>
> I've been trying to get my 12" PB to boot with the lid closed, so that I
> can put it in my KVM and have it replace my G4/400 desktop. I'm getting
> close, and I can do it as long as I don't need XFree86. :-( I managed to
> get it to boot so that the console appears on the external monitor, but
> when X starts, it changes to the internal only. So, I'll keep an eye out
> for progress on this on the Linuxppc-dev list and try again later. It sure
> will be sweet when I can make this machine my desktop and laptop.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris