On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > I recently exchanged my MSI-6167 board with a new MSI-K7pro. Since > then I seem to have a problem with the Power Management. > > I chose "Enable console blanking using APM" in the kernel setup > (2.2.17pre20) and with the old board the screen was turned off after > 10 minutes. But with the new board I get the following message > every 10 minutes: > > "apm: set display: Unable to enter requested state" > > But APM is activated in the BIOS and the kernel recognizes it while > booting:
Turn apm *off* in the bios. Linux apm will handle it alone, and better usually than the bios would. > Aug 27 14:48:37 nepomuk kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 > (Driver version 1.13) > > #cat /proc/apm says: > 1.13 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within. [sed 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@/g'] Contract programmer, server bum. Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.