iBook G4 - WorksForMe sleeping kernel

[David Collett]

Im also a long time debian user and just installed ubuntu on a work
laptop to play (i386). I have an ibook G4 with sarge on it atm (I may
move to ubuntu when my PPC CD arrives).

My question is: are ubuntu kernel packages the same as debian ones? Is
there any reason why I should not "dkpg -i" your kernel image into my
debian sarge ibook?

Thanks,
Dave


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:48:34 -0500, Asheesh Laroia <ubuntu at asheesh.org> wrote:
> I'm a long-time Debian user, and I'm running Ubuntu Warty on my iBook G4
> laptop.
> 
> If you use an iBook G4 and want sleep (suspend to RAM) support, and are
> a relatively advanced user, read on!  If you're not interested, go buy
> some plum juice (I just had some and it's good stuff).  If you're not
> advanced, then rest assured that testers will work out most of the bugs
> for 2.6.11, at which point someone (me?) will make this nice and easy.
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt has made sleep work in the iBook G4, along with a
> few other recent Apple laptops.  I'm using an iBook G4, so I patched the
> 2.6.9 kernel source with his patch and made a package.
> 
> For some reason, my laptop doesn't wake up with the Ubuntu XF86Config-4,
> so I'm also giving out someone else's from the debian-powerpc mailing
> list's.  You can download my kernel image and XF86Config-4 here:
> 
> * http://www.asheesh.org/download/isnooze/kernel-image-2.6.9-isnooze-asheesh_10.00.Custom_powerpc.deb
> * http://www.asheesh.org/download/isnooze/XF86Config-4.that_guy
> 
> (It's slow, I know.  Sorry.)  Put the XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11/ , and
> "dpkg -i" the kernel image.
> 
> Reboot as necessary.  Everything should act mostly the same, except that
> when you close your laptop's lid, it will go to sleep.  One problem I've
> had already is that if you change USB state (e.g., insert or remove a
> device) while the laptop is asleep, it won't wake up quite right.  So
> remove everything first.
> 
> Reply with comments or questions!
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 
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