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  From: Orestes Sanchez <orestes@retemail.es>
  To  : Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com>
  Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 02:24:55 +0100

Re: APM patch against 2.2.14/2.2.15pre6

Jont Allen wrote:

> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jont,
> >
> > Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com> writes:
> > > Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The patch can be found at
> > > >         http://linuxcare.com.au/apm/2.2.14-APM.3.gz
> > > > or
> > > >         http://linuxcare.com.au/apm/2.2.15pre6-APM.1.gz
> > >
> > > Can you please post for us peons the proceedure for applying this patch?
> > >
> > > I.E.:
> > > Is it only for Linux 2.2.x?
> >
> > 2.2.14-APM.3.gz will apply to a clean 2.2.14 and 2.2.15pre6-APM.1.gz
> > will apply to a clean 2.2.25pre6.
> >
> ...
> >
> > > can I use it with 2.0.34 (RH5.1)?
> >
> > No, sorry.  If there is a BIG demand, I may port parts of
> > this patch back to 2.0, but it is getting increasingly difficult
> > to just keep up with 2.2 and 2.3.
>
> I am interested in the thinkpad update. My thinkpad is flakey
> in suspending (1 out of 10 suspends fail).
> It would be great if there were a fix.
>
> Specifically:
>
> Would the patch improve the problems with an ibm560X failing to suspend
> 100% of the time, or the problem that it resumes with a dead
> keyboard or mouse about 5% of the time? I expect this is a BIOS
> problem, or a BIOS interaction with X (Bug in X?).
>
> I use Accelerated X because scrolling is so much faster than XFree86.
>
> >
> > > Reference to a doc/README file discussing any of this would be great.
> >
> > I will add a Documentation/apm.txt file in the next patch.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen
> > --
> > Stephen Rothwell, Open Source Project Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc.
> > +61-2-62628990 tel, +61-2-62628991 fax
> > sfr@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
>
> > Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
> Yea!
>
> Thanks very much!!!
>
> Jont
> --
> Jont B. Allen
> AT&T Labs-Research, Shannon Laboratory, E161
> 180 Park Ave., Florham Park NJ, 07932-0971
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>  -"Dont anthropomorphize computers, they hate it." --unknown
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I tried the APM patch (2.2.14-5) against 2.2.14 kernel, the latest one at the
APMd headquarter and the machine reboots instead of powering off when I run
"poweroff". This is the same problem since patch 2, but before patch 2 the
machine only "Oops" at powering off or halting.

My motherboard is a DFI K6BV3+ rev A. with the latest BIOS. The chipset is a
VIA MVP3.

I am booting Linux from DOS, with loadlin. Is it right? I am telling this
because of the real mode calls to power off in the lastest versions of the
patches.

Bye.