Re: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY and modprobe
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 16:21, Lars G. T. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> I've installed the preview version of X 4.2. But I also have the
> problem of X stopping with a black screen. When I logged into my
> laptop from another machine I found out that it was modprobe that
> tried to do:
> '/sbin/modprobe -s -k -- char-major-10-134'
> When I killed this process X continued and started up just fine.
> Browsing the web made me suspect that it has to do with apm (the
> kernel has some problems with ACPI).
Indeed, major 10 minor 134 is /dev/apm_bios. The X server opens that to
be able to react to APM events. If you can't get APM working in the
kernel, a workaround would be to remove /dev/apm_bios.
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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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