On 10/13/03 8:57 PM, "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> James Whitwell <jamesw@au.yahoo-inc.com> writes:
> 
>> Is power management supported on macppc?  Specifically, I'd like to be
>> able to put the machine to sleep, and wake it by hitting a key on the
>> keyboard.  Is wake-on-lan supported at all?  I'm not really up to
>> speed on NetBSD's apm support.
> 
> No. There is no sleep or hibernation support. All you can do is query
> the battery status.
> 
> (APM is a PC BIOS-level interface for power management; it doesn't
> apply to Apple hardware. The battery stuff goes through the
> *userlevel* interface to APM mostly because it was there and nobody
> was up for the hassle of inventing a new battery-status interface).

You talk about sleep and hibernation.  What about just putting the monitor
to sleep.  I'm specifically interested in putting a monitor to sleep on an
iMac.

-Ryan

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