Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?

From: Igmar Palsenberg (maillist@chello.nl)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 13:50:40 EST


> > Doing it this way is _way_ better for system
> > stability, because kidle-apmd sometimes dies due to APM
> > bug. kidle-apmd dying is recoverable error; swapper dieing is as fatal
> > as it can be.
>
> Good. Maybe the bugs will get fixed then. If the bugs are in
> the BIOS or motherboard hardware, we can have a blacklist.

If the're a lot of buggy APM BIOS'es out there it may indeed not be a wise
idea to throw everything on one pile.

        Igmar

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