Re: APM Problems

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 03:27:04 EST


> There is no APM support in the BIOS on the Dell Inspiron 5000e - it's ACPI
> only.

if its generating oopses it sounds very much like there _is_ apm support but
its broken. Just differently broken to some of the others.

For /proc/apm to exist the BIOS must be answering some of the queries to
access it. WHat happens then is the real question - is it a Dell error return
or BIOS bug that crashes stuff

Alan

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