Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9
On Sam, 2003-03-15 at 13:04, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> David MENTRE <david.mentre@wanadoo.fr> 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.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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