Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 07:57:29 EST


Hi!

> My impression is that APM is slowly degenerating while ACPI is not
> (yet ?) able to fill the gap. The suspend feature of ACPI is stated to
> be dangerous and experimental and does not work for me at all.

That sounds about right.

> After all this bashing...
>
> Is there anyone out there who has the same experiences ?
>
> Is there a workaround ?
>
> Is it possible to somehow downgrade APM in the 2.6 kernel
> to the 2.4.x state ?
>
> How could one debug this kind of missbehaviour ? Where do
> I have to look for potential miss configurations of the system ?
>
> I'm really willing to help the APM developers to track down this bug
> but don't have a clue how to debug this kind stuff.

What APM developers? There are none as far as I know.

Try removing calls to device_* in apm.c. Better yet become APM
developer.

Pavel
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