sleep troubles

[schmoppa]

Hi all, any help would be much appreciated...

 

I used the Kakewalk CD method to install 10.6, and then downloaded and installed the combo update to 10.6.3

 

Currently sleep doesn't work right. The machine goes to low power mode, from which I cannot wake it (fans spin, though not as loud / fast; no screen appears). I've tried in both S1 and S3 modes (I believe S3 is the correct one).

 

I stuck this kext (sleepenabler.kext for 10.6.3) in Extra / Extensions,

http://www.kexts.com/view/318-sleepenabler...810.3.0%29.html

 

and ran Kext Utility

http://www.kexts.com/view/129-kext_utility...8update%29.html

 

Am I missing something? I haven't done anything else to the system other than the 10.6.3 update. Things seem to be running smoothly otherwise...

 

Thanks!

 

(edit - moved from different forum)

[valv]

open a Terminal and type

[b]sudo -s[/b]
chown -Rf 0:0 /folder/containing/your/kext/sleepenable.kext
chmod -Rf 755 /folder/containing/your/kext/sleepenable.kext

[schmoppa]

thanks for your reply. I tried running those commands but to no avail. After rebooting and trying sleep again, the system fans and LEDs turned off. Moving the mouse did nothing, and when I pushed the power button the fans spun up and lights came on but that was it.

 

the commands I ran were

 

sudo -s

chown -Rf 0:0 /Extra/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext

chmod -Rf 755 /Extra/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext

 

dumb question... guh, really dumb now that I look at it... do I need to have the kexts in /System/Library/Extensions to work?

 

Also, just curious what were those commands supposed to do?

 

Thanks!

[delux_bsd]

I think you will first copy your kext into /System/Extensions and then you will do this:

sudo -s

cd /System/Exentions

chown -Rf 0:0 sleepenabler.kext

chmod -Rf 755 sleepenabler.kext

[schmoppa]

I think you will first copy your kext into /System/Extensions and then you will do this:

sudo -s

cd /System/Exentions

chown -Rf 0:0 sleepenabler.kext

chmod -Rf 755 sleepenabler.kext

 

OK - I tried moving sleepenabler.kext into /System/Extensions and ran your commands.

 

The only difference now that I can tell is that after I set the computer to sleep, and then when I hit the power button to attempt to wake the computer (and only get fans and lights running as far as I can tell), when I hold the power button down I don't get a hard shut off but instead I set it back to the weird sleep / coma mode. It seemed to take several holdings of the power button to get a fresh restart with the POST screen showing up.

 

Just to be clear, I have sleep disabled in Energy Saver, and when I set the computer to sleep I just go the Apple menu and select it there.

 

I tried running Kext Utility again with the same results. I noticed that Kext Utility seemed to mention the path to /Extras/Extensions (I don't know why). Is Kext Utility doing basically the same thing as chmod and chown commands -- correcting permissions? -- except to all the kexts instead of just the one?

 

I wonder if there is something else wrong, like in the BIOS. I believe I have the system set to S3 sleep mode. Not sure if there is anything else I would need to adjust but I couldn't find anything that seemed relevant in the BIOS.

[schmoppa]

sorry for the bump... anybody have any ideas on what else I could be doing wrong?

[Hangten]

sorry for the bump... anybody have any ideas on what else I could be doing wrong?

Have you tried running your CPU without it overclocked?

Updating your BIOS to?

Beyond a certain point 3.2ghz+ sleep will break on my EVGA X58 and it never even worked correctly for the first revision board. But overclocking seems to kill it. This is even true of Windows 7 EVGA forum members confirm its the BIOS and really that just sucks.

 

You must of had it working before 10.6.3? You can try a different DSDT from HERE

[grice]

I can't help other than to say that I'm also having the same sleep trouble with my Kakewalk 10.6.3 on my EP45-UD3R. In my case, sleep on demand works instantaneous, wake mostly works  ; but AutoSleep doesn't quite work. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I've tried sleepenabler 10.6.3 and OSXRestart, still can't get Autosleep to work properly. I'm experimenting with various things but can't isolate what's causing it. May have to try another install method. 

 

I'm trying "pleasesleep" app to force sleep, however, sometimes wake doesn't work.

 

 

 

It seems even real Macs have reported sleep issues with 10.6.3. My suspicion is that the problem is not Kake's install method but something to do with the 10.6.3 update that causes the HDs to power down on sleep but not the rest of the system and causes the system to not come out of sleep on other occasions.

 

May have to wait for 10.6.4 and another update of Chameleon to fix it. 

[schmoppa]

Have you tried running your CPU without it overclocked?

Updating your BIOS to?

Beyond a certain point 3.2ghz+ sleep will break on my EVGA X58 and it never even worked correctly for the first revision board. But overclocking seems to kill it. This is even true of Windows 7 EVGA forum members confirm its the BIOS and really that just sucks.

 

You must of had it working before 10.6.3? You can try a different DSDT from HERE

 

Yeah, after enough times where I try the sleep and have to hard power down, I will get a bios message saying something about having to set the clock speed to default. so at the moment I am running on stock speeds... but you know I'm not sure if I ahve tried at stock speeds now that you mention it. I'll have to try. Good to know that it may not be possible at +3.2GHz.

 

I have not updated the BIOS. Not sure how to do that -- do I have to be in Windows? I don't have a windows install.

 

I can't help other than to say that I'm also having the same sleep trouble with my Kakewalk 10.6.3 on my EP45-UD3R. In my case, sleep on demand works instantaneous, wake mostly works  ; but AutoSleep doesn't quite work. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I've tried sleepenabler 10.6.3 and OSXRestart, still can't get Autosleep to work properly. I'm experimenting with various things but can't isolate what's causing it. May have to try another install method. 

 

I'm trying "pleasesleep" app to force sleep, however, sometimes wake doesn't work.

 

 

 

It seems even real Macs have reported sleep issues with 10.6.3. My suspicion is that the problem is not Kake's install method but something to do with the 10.6.3 update that causes the HDs to power down on sleep but not the rest of the system and causes the system to not come out of sleep on other occasions.

 

May have to wait for 10.6.4 and another update of Chameleon to fix it. 

 

I was never able to get it to sleep in 10.6.0 either.

[verdant]

Yeah, after enough times where I try the sleep and have to hard power down, I will get a bios message saying something about having to set the clock speed to default. so at the moment I am running on stock speeds... but you know I'm not sure if I ahve tried at stock speeds now that you mention it. I'll have to try. Good to know that it may not be possible at +3.2GHz.

 

I have not updated the BIOS. Not sure how to do that -- do I have to be in Windows? I don't have a windows install.

 

 

 

I was never able to get it to sleep in 10.6.0 either.

 

Even on a nForce 650i chipset MOBO using Leopard 10.5.6, sleep stops functioning properly if the CPU and/or RAM is overclocked, so it may be a generic issue that overclocking "kills" the sleep function.......

[Phorte]

any updates on this anyone? i have similar issues...