On Mon 2006-12-18 14:11:58, Lex Ross wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2006 13:45, you wrote: > > > Dell Inspiron 5000 is really an APM BIOS machine with some early > > > development ACPI interface support. It used to suspend perfectly with 2.4 > > > kernels and apmd. > > > > > > With 2.6 kernel which I am using now only acpi module can be inserted. > > > > Please find out exact release where APM stopped working, locate change > > that made it stop working, find out what was wrong and submit a patch.
> The problem is not apmd but rather the kernel itself. Even when booted with > acpi=off noapic parameters it failes to insert apm module: I know. > FATAL: Error inserting apm > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko): No such device > > I just swithed from ALT Linux (2.6.12 kernel) distribution to Debian and > cannot afford to install all previous kernels due to possible dependancy > problems. This is a production machine after all. I tried 2.6.17 kernel, and > it's just the same. Debug it with printk, then. > This is strange for the BIOS with full APM compatibility and just partial > ACPI > support. Any ideas? You may raise this issue with the kernel module > developers to see what they have to say. Or is it just the Debian > specific There are not any APM developers left, AFAIK. You are welcome to become one. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel