apm_emulation regression

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Dec 13 22:40:19 EST 2007


> > That basically means X will break. That's why X broke on the latest
> > ubuntu until I whacked some new scripts in them to force console
> > switching, among other things. Possibly other apps that relied
> > on /dev/apm_bios to be notified of system suspend/resume broke as well.
> 
> Ah. I guess I never noticed because I had the scripts to do console
> switching all along.

Actually, it just occurred to me that the *kernel* does a console switch
when we use /sys/power/state, so maybe that is why I never had a problem
rather than userspace doing a console switch (which it only started
doing very recently)

johannes
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