Bug#167009: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#167009: Additional details)
On Don, 2002-10-31 at 03:47, 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.
>
> 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.
pmud recommends it.
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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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