On Sam, 2003-03-15 at 14:25, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sam, 2003-03-15 at 13:04, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > I works!! In fact, the /dev/apm_bios character device was missing. > >> > > >> > Doing a 'mknod /dev/apm_bios c 10 134;chmod 770 /dev/apm_bios' as root > >> > make it works. > >> > >> What in the patch makes this necessary, please? > > > > Nothing. APM emulation has always been a prerequisite for proper sleep > > in X, as without it the X server has no way of knowing what's going on. > > Right, but isn't this /dev/apm_bios created by some package?
Yes, pmud and powermgmt-base seem to do that at least. You also need to make sure the apm_emu kernel module is actually loaded if you haven't built APM emulation into the kernel. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
