closing the lid --> sleep, turn off the display?

[Jesse Alama]

It would be nice if when I closed the lid on my 17" G4 PowerBook the
system goes to sleep, as it does when using Mac OS X. Currently,
though, with my debian sarge configuration (kernel 2.6.8), closing the
lid doesn't seem to do anything at all (e.g., the display isn't even
dimmed or turned off). How can I configure my system so that closing
the lid shuts off the display and puts the computer to sleep?

Thanks,

Jesse

[Alf]

Post by Jesse Alama
It would be nice if when I closed the lid on my 17" G4 PowerBook the
system goes to sleep, as it does when using Mac OS X. Currently,
though, with my debian sarge configuration (kernel 2.6.8), closing the
lid doesn't seem to do anything at all (e.g., the display isn't even
dimmed or turned off). How can I configure my system so that closing
the lid shuts off the display and puts the computer to sleep?
Thanks,
Jesse

Hi,

I had the same problem with MDK 10.1 on my old tangerine iBook. I have been
told, sleep was not supported until 2.6.11. However, I did not try that
until now but returned to my 2.4.21 as an iBook w/o sleep functionality is
no option for me.

Alf

[Jack Malmostoso]

Post by Jesse Alama
It would be nice if when I closed the lid on my 17" G4 PowerBook the
system goes to sleep, as it does when using Mac OS X.

Hmmm tricky matter :)

Your powerbook has an nVidia video chip, that is awfully supported under
linux. If you had an ATi9200 iBook you would have had sleep supported from
2.6.11 kernel.

With that machine you can try with suspend-to-disk (as opposed to
suspend-to-ram, the "sleep"), patching the kernel with this:

http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/2.6.11.6-agx0.diff

and recompiling.
Try googling with "suspend to disk" keywords to find more on the subject.