warty-release-install-ppc on ibook g3

[Alan Harper]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:51:26PM -0400, Tony wrote:
> I performed a clean install of the release version of warty on my
> 600MHz G3 iBook, hoping the issue with the awake from (lid close)
> sleep might be resolved.  Result: the ibook appears to go to sleep properly
> but on waking the screen is black with the following output...
> 
> eth1: Airport entering sleep mode
> eth0: suspending, WakeOnLan disabled
> radeonfb: suspending to state: 2...
> radeonfb: switch to D2 state...
> cpufreq: resume failed to assert current frequency is what timing core
> thinks it is.
> radeonfb: switching to D0 state...
> radeonfb: resumed !
> eth1: get_wireless_stats() called while device not present
> enable_irq(27) unbalanced
> enable_irq(28) unbalanced
> eth0: resuming
> eth1: Airport waking up
> eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
> 
> After which, I am unable to proceed or get another console and must
> hard reboot.
> 
This is something I have found with 2.6 on ppc (I'm using a blueberry ibook). 
2.4 sleeps fine, although I have had suggested to try using pmud instead of 
pbbutonsd, I haven't had time yet. On my machine it appears to be sleeping too,
but if I hit the power button it 'resumes'

> I don't know how difficult it would be, but a PPC live cd would be
> very beneficial to the PPC community to demonstrate to Mac users
> Ubuntu's (and Linux's) capabilities.  So far, I have not found (any)
> Linux Live CD yet that succeeds in running with X on my ibook or
> yosemite G3.  Gentoo live CD would boot, but I could not get X to
> work.  I don't believe I could get Knoppix PPC to even boot.
This has been mentioned before, feel free to volunteer!

> Mostly happy :^/
> 
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