> >For those of you using the newest benh kernels with PMAC_APM_EMU, here's >my experience: > >PMAC_APM_EMU does _not_ mean that you should use the apmd package (i386 >power management daemon). What it does is translate the status messages >from pmud (Powerpc power management daemon) so that the Gnome Battery >monitor Applet and others works on the PowerPC platform as well.
Right. It also adds /dev/apm_bios. You should create this device node. The APM emulation will notify clients using this device of suspend and resume sequences, allowing things like XFree86 to suspend & resume properly. Without this, X might do bad things, like banging accel commands to a sleeping hardware, or just cause a lockup because DRI was in use while the kernel tried to put the video chip to sleep.
