Re: Bug#167009: Additional details
On Mit, 2002-10-30 at 15:14, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:05:32AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
>
> > As discussed many times on the debian-powerpc list, make sure APM
> > emulation is enabled in the kernel, that /dev/apm_bios exists and that
> > the X server log contains contains a line
>
> I will check on these things and report back later today; however, I am
> still concerned that an X upgrade broke this. It worked fine before
> upgrading.
The r128 driver does 2D acceleration with DRI enabled differently (like
the radeon driver has always done) since 4.2.0. Did OpenGL programs work
after sleep before? If you don't need 3D hardware acceleration on your
main session, just run with DRI disabled and it might work as before.
> Seems to me that if it could handle it before, it should be able
> to handle it now?
>
> Don't you think, too, that it should not require this emulation to work
> properly?
>
> > (II) Open APM successful
> >
> > Failing that, the X server can't react to the sleep cycle, and you need
> > to switch to console for sleep.
This is still the important point. That it used to work was basically
luck.
PS: cd /dev; MAKEDEV apm
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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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