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APM failure on Thinkpad R40



Nice people out there:),

   I have been using Debian on a Thinkpad R40 for a couple of months now, 
trying all this time to ignore a couple of problems. However, I 
discovered a few more symptoms, and I'll very grateful if some of you can 
help me now. 

   To install Debian, I guided myself mostly through Thomas Marquart page: 
          http://tom.uni-hd.de/thinkpad-r40.html,
hence, I have installed the latest drm-trunk and dri-trunk packages, along 
with XFree86 4.3 from 
       deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./

   Right now, the machine is working almost perfectly. The only 2 
important problems remaining seems to be related with APM. Note however, 
that I'm able to suspend (Fn-F4) and wake-up the machine flawlessly 
(well... it goes to sleep only if I'm not using the audio output, but that 
is something I can live with:D)
   The two problems from which I would really appreciate any advice...
   First, whenever I blank the LCD (Fn-F3), it will never go back on, and 
I'll have to remove the battery to reboot... just pressing the power 
button does nothing. That also applies to automatic BIOS turning off of 
the display, i.e. if I'm working with battery only and I don't touch the 
keyboard or mouse every 5 minutes... I'll have to reboot!!!
   Second problem is that the computer doesn't halt cleanly. Rather, I'll 
have to keep the power button pressed down 5 seconds to really turn it 
off after the last "Halting..." (or something like that) message.

   In the XFree86.0.log file, I recently discovered the following weird 
message: 
...
(II) LoadModule: "apm"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module apm
(II) UnloadModule: "apm"
(EE) Failed to load module "apm" (module does not exist, 0)
...

but, the lsmod output (attached below) do show a loaded and used apm 
module, and remeber that the suspend function do work for me!

  I'm using Debian unstable with Gnome and kernel 2.4.21, I'm also 
attaching below the lsmod output and the contents of XF86Config-4 file. If 
you think you'll need more info to help me better, please let me know and 
I'll gladly send it.

  Thank you very much in advance, sincerely...

                               Patricio

-------------------------------------
#lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
mousedev                4340   1  (autoclean)
radeon                101916   1
agpgart                39264   3  (autoclean)
i810_audio             24540   1  (autoclean)
soundcore               3972   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
ac97_codec             11860   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
ds                      6868   1
i82365                 24528   1
pcmcia_core            40832   0  [ds i82365]
af_packet              13704   1  (autoclean)
e100                   47208   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               4348   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   10860   1  (autoclean)
fat                    32088   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
serial                 48260   0  (autoclean) (unused)
thinkpad                2500   0  (unused)
usbmouse                2264   0  (unused)
input                   3648   0  [mousedev usbmouse]
usb-uhci               23696   0  (unused)
usbcore                63436   0  [usbmouse usb-uhci]
apm                    10568   1
rtc                     6792   0  (autoclean)

------------------------------------------
# cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, 
the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make 
changes
# before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the
# "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
#
# To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
#   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
# as root.  Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated
# XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in 
/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
 
Section "Files"
        FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font 
server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
 
Section "Module"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "record"
        Load    "speedo"
        Load    "type1"
        Load    "vbe"
        Load    "apm"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc101"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Touchpad"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection
 
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
        Driver          "vesa"
EndSection
 
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Radeon Card"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Option          "AGPMode"       "2"
        Option          "EnablePageFlip" "true"
#       Option          "UseFBDev"      "true"
EndSection
 
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
#       HorizSync       28-60
#       VertRefresh     43-90
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection
 
Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Radeon Card"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "800x600" 
"640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
 
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Touchpad"
        InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"
EndSection
 
Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection
 
### END DEBCONF SECTION


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