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  From: Scott Pack <scott.pack@pictureiq.com>
  To  : <apmd-list@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:43:24 -0700

Problems with apm/apmd and RH6.2

Can someone illuminate what happened with apm and apmd between RedHat
6.1 and 6.2?  Talk about pulling the rug out from underneath me!

Here's my problem.  I have a DEC Ultra2000 laptop.  Under RH6.1 apmd
appeared to handle all power management issues, and I created a
apmd_proxy file to handle the special cases of my hardware - like doing
a 'cardctl -eject' before suspend so the built-in ethernet works
properly upon resume.  Worked great.

Then I upgraded to RH6.2 and all of a sudden nothing worked!  In looking
about, it seems major changes occured and now apm is the central power
management daemon.  It certainly works better in some respects such as
the clock updating accurately.

But the big problem I am having now is that I get 'hda lost interrupt'
messages upon resumes.  This is catastrophic, I must powerdown without
unmounting my filesystems!  Very very bad.  This is not a hardware
problem as the machine dual-boots and the other OS does not exhibit any
problems when suspending/resuming.

I've looked at the apm-scripts and I can't figure out what I need to
do.  As a last resort I tried to skip apm and use apmd, but that doesn't
appear to be working either.  Please help!

-Scott