AlBook AND iBook G4 Sleep patch released!

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

NOTE: the latest gentoo sources (2.6.11) should already have the sleep patch applied.

It's that time of week again, and we've got the 7th version of the patch, there should be fewer lockups now. Benh has put in a workaround for cache corruption while he waits for freescale to get back to him. Let us know how it goes!

A new patch has been released by benh that allows sleep on AlBooks *AND* iBook G4. I've pixed the patch paths a little to make it easier for Gentoo users to use, get the patch at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/albook-ibookg4-sleep-7.diff.gz
Applies cleanly to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.9-r4:

colinleroy · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 50

.gz.bz2 ?

Also, you should better use the second patch BenH sent:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00356.html

micron · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

On my ibook G4 this patch work fine.
I've applied it on 2.6.9 vanilla.

I'm the really happy

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minicom · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

This is awesome. I can't wait to try it out!

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DrACoNuS · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: awesome

Guess that I have my weekend planned out for me!! This is going to be great.
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nicoske · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Brussels

Works perfectly on my ibook G4 12" 1ghz !

killefiz · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 5

Too bad Apple used an NVidia-Chip in the current
12" G4 Powerbooks.

So no sleep for me ...

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micron · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: Re: mpf - no nvidia support :(

toojays · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:32 am Post subject:

When did he say that? I got the impression that the technique used to reverse engineer the ATI drivers could not be used for the Nvidia ones.

See this message for details.

micron · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 1:09 am Post subject:

Sorry... I misunderstood this post:

aronchi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 94

here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1795346#1795346
is a post of an Italian pwbook owner that made the VGA out works with this kernel patch.

He did that:

patch the kernel with the sleep diff
load the kernel-sleep
put on an external monitor into VGA out cable
sleep the notebook
resume the monitor

Then he has a clone mode active.

I've noticed he don't use FBDev.
Is it possible to get this thing work? anyone can reproduce that?

Can you write to BenH to say this message, maybe it can be useful for a newer ibook-vgaout patch

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silian87 · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject:

Yes, I am the italian user :wink:

, vga out works for me. Benh say that it works only with radeonfb. If you use fbdev, you don't have a lot of problems, but you can't use vgaout for now...

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blubbfisch · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:32 am Post subject:

Anybody else seeing black&white horizontal stripes in the root (X-background) after wake-up with 2nd patch applied?
Using the first patch it worked alright, it only started with the second patch.

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Motomouse · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 56

works over here

had to copy first pmac_cache.S from subdir /usr/src/linux/sleep-2.6.9-sleep/arch/ppc/platforms to
/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/platforms
until that i got errors on missing Makefile rule for pmac_cache.o

Thanks a lot
ralph

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

Bump for new patch version!

Motomouse · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 56

(On gentoo_dev_sources 2.6.9-r1 i had to copy again the file mentioned two posts above)
version 7 working fine

by the way, no more lock ups over here with this version

(only prob remaining, if you can call this a problem, rhythmbox has problems recovering from sleep, xmms no problem, my other apps all recover fine)

Hippi@Bacarni · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 53 Location: Hannover, DE

Also no probs with number 7 :-D

with gentoo-dev-2.6.9-r9

I love it!

HighOnBonsai · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 260

When will there be support von kernel 2.6.10? Does anybody know? The new kernel now activates both fans of the Powerbook (and it does this in a smoother way!)

Christopher
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toojays · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:26 am Post subject:

The next sleep patch will be against 2.6.10 I think, but I saw a message saying that benh is going on holidays, so I guess it wont be out until after he gets back.

By the way, much of the discussion about the sleep patch takes place on Debian's PowerPC list.

fafhrd · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject:

You can try this updated patch:

fafhrd · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject:

... just adding a note to say that the patch seems to work well after multiple sleep attempts. (don't think I made it clear that it does work above).
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HighOnBonsai · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 260

Great! Thanks, I will try it!

Christopher
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fafhrd · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:56 am Post subject:

Well, the only thing that seems to have gone wrong is that backlight control doesn't seem to work -- but sleep still does.

If any one else with some kernel hacking experience wants to take a look at this patch as well, that'd be great.

Likely BenH will bang out a more official patch for 2.6.10 when he returns from his break or whatever.
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kubrick2001 · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 56