new ATI sleep code freezes

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:35, mutex at kerneli.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:15:55PM +0200 or thereabouts,
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Also make sure you have APM emulation working (check XFree log to see
> > if it found & opened the APM device)
>
> from my XF86Config file...
>
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
>
> But my kernel config says...
> CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU=y
>
> The only thing unusual is I am running devfs..
> so i checked /dev
>
> heliosphan dev # find . -name *apm*
> ./misc/apm_bios
> ./apm_bios
>
> /dev/misc/apm_bios has perms:
>
> crw-------    1 mutex    root      10, 134 Dec 31  1969 apm_bios
>
> are those normal permissions ?

I don't know, I don't use devfs, I have:

crw-rw----    1 root     root      10, 134 2003-04-29 13:04
/dev/apm_bios

Anyway, the X server doesn't try to use /dev/misc/apm_bios but
/dev/apm_bios and gets ENOENT.


> Also, I'm running an enlightenment battery applet which afaik uses apm
> layer to report battery level. So something has to be working.

It might use /proc/apm.


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