On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:47:57PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > 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. Power management support packages aren't prerequisites for systems that don't have power management. > Perhaps the bug is not with X, but I submit that it is still a bug. Well, why don't you go ask debian-devel what package should handle this sort of thing? > If these lockups are occuring becuase there is no /dev/apm_bios, > couldn't X's postinst at least create it? Why shouldn't the makedev package? > 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? And what of people using other X server packages, or with no X server at all? Shall we just assume those folks don't need power management support? > 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. Sounds like you have a problem with Debian's PowerPC architecture support, and not a problem with XFree86 at all. -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@deadbeast.net | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://www.deadbeast.net/~branden/ |
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