Power management (sleep)

[y***@yahoo.com]

Hello!

As you may notice from previous message in this group, I've installed
Debian etch on my iMac. Things pretty much work (including bluetooth
mouse). Now I'm concerned with power management - I guess it's possible
to make iMac sleep/suspend (stop disks, look like turned off :) as it
did with MacOS. But there are lots of options out there. I tried some,
nothing worked like I expected out of the box.
What is known working approach? apmd? powersaved? Gnome Power Manager?
What are commands to put it to sleep forcefully?
Visible changes occured with hibernate (screen distorted, computer
hanged) and powersaved (brightness was reduced).

Thanks,
Dmitri

[abelenda]

Post by y***@yahoo.com
Hello!
As you may notice from previous message in this group, I've installed
Debian etch on my iMac. Things pretty much work (including bluetooth
mouse). Now I'm concerned with power management - I guess it's possible
to make iMac sleep/suspend (stop disks, look like turned off :) as it
did with MacOS. But there are lots of options out there. I tried some,
nothing worked like I expected out of the box.
What is known working approach? apmd? powersaved? Gnome Power Manager?
What are commands to put it to sleep forcefully?
Visible changes occured with hibernate (screen distorted, computer
hanged) and powersaved (brightness was reduced).
Thanks,
Dmitri

I know there is a project called powerbook buttons daemon under gentoo
you just install it activate and all powermanagment is working whithout
problem.

[y***@yahoo.com]

Post by abelenda
I know there is a project called powerbook buttons daemon under gentoo
you just install it activate and all powermanagment is working whithout
problem.

Well, I followed the advice given in the last thread and installed
Ubuntu. It sleeps.