apm: set display: Interface not engaged

[Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>]

Hello fellow debians,

I finally updated my kernel to 2.2.17, running potato on a Compaq
Armada 1500c notebook.
since then the message "apm: set display: Interface not engaged" started
popping up on the scree, i.e. not only on in the logs but on the
console. This is rather annoying while reading mail with mutt etc.
I didn't modify syslogd.conf, so this must be an emergency or stderr(?)
message.
It doesn't look too bad, so adjusting logging may be an option (what to do
then?),
but I'd like to know what the cause for the message is.
The interesting lines in .config are:

CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE=y
# CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set

I didn't change anything over here from the last kernel (2.2.14)

Thanks for any help,

Michael

please cc my, i am not on the list.

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