[ltp] R40 APM Standby and Power-Off not working

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
16 Jun 2003 16:13:31 +0200


On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 12:42, Fabrice Bellet wrote: 
> Moreover, apm support has to be compiled as part of the kernel, and not 
> as a module, because, on RedHat at least, the termination of apmd during 
> the shutdown scripts also silently removes the apm.o module. In this case,
> the final power off instructions have no effect.

Another serious problem with building the apm driver as a module
is that, in that form, the apm driver does pass APM events to other
drivers.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood2@yahoo.co.uk>