Bug#167009: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#167009: Additional details)
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:18:05PM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Once cannot expect power management-related functionality to work when
> one's kernel doesn't support power management, or when the interfaces to
> the kernel's power management support are not set up.
One can expect Debian packages to set up the prerequisites they need to
operate properly.
Perhaps the bug is not with X, but I submit that it is still a bug. We
should not be shipping a system configured by default in a way such that we
have these lockups. If these lockups are occuring becuase there is no
/dev/apm_bios, couldn't X's postinst at least create it?
Interestingly, powermgmt-base presents a question about this. On x86
machines, apmd depends on this package, but nothing does on powerpc.
Perhaps xserver-xfree86 should do so, to ensure that proper power management
interfaces are available to userland? powermgmt-base also appears to take
care of the situation properly for people using devfs.
Moreover, its size is 128K installed and depends only on makedev, libc6, and
debconf. It should not pose any problem for the X server.
-- John
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