[G4] Flame Wars/Sleep Problems

[Robert H. Baucom]

I'm in Borrego Springs, CA. I have another Quicksilver in Fort Worth,  
TX and another in Arlington, TX ... don't have this
problem with the other two and they both have USB 2 Five Port PCI  
CARDS. I suspect t his one because it's an INTEK21 model TX9910
and the box and paper work only mentions Windows Widows 98SE or  
later. It worked for me last year but that my have been only USB 1.1  
devices.
The card works with my  Camera card reader and my HP1160 printer  
(slow loading) and my Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball.
I maybe because the other two are 2002 Quicksilvers and this one is a  
2001 ... but I thought the 1.4 GB accelerator board made it the  
equivalent of the 2002.
May have to buy a 2002 933 Logic board.
RHB

On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Mike Bechtold wrote:
>
>> Robert: I've read that there is a bug in 10.4 and
>> below that prevents a PPC with a USB card from sleeping. The bug  
>> was purportedly fixed with Leopard.
>> Did the problem show up before or after the USB card
>> was installed?
>
> I think you're right. I have a USB 2.0 card in my G4
> Sawtooth, and the system used to have a problem sleeping
> when there was a device connected to the card and powered on
> (at least some devices like HDDs; I'm not sure if it happened
> with all devices). What would happen is that the system would
> start to sleep but not fully sleep, so it would be in a
> zombie-like state with the monitor in low-power mode but
> the drives still powered up and spinning. Since it didn't
> fully sleep it couldn't be awakened, and the only possibility
> was to power-cycle (which I hate to do).
>
> With Leopard this got better and the system was able to sleep
> if there were powered-on devices connected to the USB card.
> But now I have another problem: the system gradually got flaky
> about sleeping automatically (i.e., from the power saving setting),
> and now it won't sleep automatically at all. But it does sleep
> OK if I explicitly tell it to.
>
> Eric S.
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