Messages in this thread | | | From | Stephen.Rothwell@canb ... | Subject | Re: Debian: Things left to do for release. (fwd) | Date | Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:58:54 +1100 |
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Hi,
Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> writes: > > > Well, the problem is that on some broken computers, making APM BIOS calls > > crashes the computer. So we would need a command line option (or sysctl in > > /proc/sys) to _enable_ it. That may be what you meant :) > > As in my prev. mail, no. Anyway, here is command line option to > DISABLE apm. I belive Debian would like this option for their install > disks (so that they can have APM always in but disabled - some > machines crash when APM is enabled). Please merge to linus at next > convience,
I have this as part of my ongoing APM work, I will produce a small patch and submit it to Linus soon.
Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Rothwell Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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