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Getting a PowerBook to Stop BreathingAugust 17, 2006 - 11:28pm
Jeff Arcel asks: QuestionIs there a possible way to stop the pulsating “sleep” light on a powerbook, via AppleScript or some other way? Aside from Shutting the computer off, of course. AnswerThere are two ways to do this, both in hardware.
Essentially, there’s nothing you can do in software because that function is controlled in firmware, and it’s not an exposed setting in Open Firmware for the PPC machines. As Intel machines don’t have much access at all to their firmware, even if it was possible there it wouldn’t be pretty getting to it. Duct tape is always removable, though. I’d go there, first. About Adam Knight |
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Keeping the laptop open and allowing it to go to sleep will avoid the annoying pulsing light…..
Not on my MacBook Pro…
i think eric is confusing display sleep with CPU sleep. on older powerbooks, the LED only flashed if the CPU was sleeping.
this has, though, been changed in the intel Macs. Now, the LED is solid on display sleep, and pulses on CPU sleep.
> Keeping the laptop open and allowing it to go to sleep will avoid the annoying pulsing light…..
How?? On my original iBook, Pismo, chiclet iBook, and AlBook, the pulsing light comes on once it’s asleep…
However, if you have a later model Mac that supports Safe Sleep, then you can enable that feature and set it to immediate activation on sleep, and it will power off once the contents of RAM have been stored on the HD, leaving you with no pulsing light.
9 times out of 10 it wakes from sleep fine on my AlBook… the 10th time everything comes up from sleep and the clock on my menubar ticks, but I don’t have working input devices. I believe the last generation of G4 ‘Books (with 2-finger scrolling support) and all the intel Macs support this. The G4 minis also support this.
I also find the pulsating light really annoying, and way too bright. It lights up my entire room when i turn the light off, so i tend to have a habbit of throwing a t-shirt over it when i go to sleep