Re: apm/apcid in 2.4.0-test

David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:15:35 -0700


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There are scads of problems like these. I haven't posted mine because I
didn't know yet if it was kernel or X related.

Some of the issues I have on my laptop are: (i'm 99.9% of the time in X)

- w/ ACPI, battery usage is a constant. no savings period, no other issues
but no savings anywhere.
- w/ APM, a whole slew of issues.
- on resume from standby, frequently the keyboard is semi lost. magic
key works, nothing else works. resetting the keyboard doesn't fix anything,
i'm leaning on this being an X issue.
- some pcmcia cards don't resume, requiring a soft eject/insert. hard
eject crashes machine.
- sometimes the display doesn't return. the backlight flickers once but
then remains black. subsequent manual standby/suspend states cannot fix
this, gotta reboot. network login works. switch to VC works.
- w/ some kernels, floppy starts spinning on resume, have to try to mount
something then unmount it to get the spindle to shut down. altho i use the
same base .config file from kernel to kernel, some kernels do this, some
don't.

Alan Cox wrote:

> > If I disable acpi and use apm, kapmd fires up, but uses 94+% of cpu, and
>
> Thats what it should do - thats 94% of the time power saving
>
> > when I suspend to disk it fails to return. The status bar shows it
> > reloading, then I get a blank screen and dead keyboard, and have to hard
> > reset.
>
> That may well be a BIOS problem - did it work in 2.2
>
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