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SubjectRe: APM and unwelcome messages
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> John Summerfield <summer@os2.ami.com.au> writes:
> > I have hundreds of these:
> > apm_bios: set display standby: Unrecognized device ID
> > apm_bios: set display ready: Unrecognized device ID
> >
> > Here are the APM bits from .config
> > CONFIG_APM=y
> > CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
> > CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
> > CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y

This got rid of the messages and the screen still blanks.
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=n
>
> Try turning this off.
>
> If you want to be more adventurous, try changing linux/drivers/char/apm_bios.c.
> In the APM_SET_DISPLAY_POWER_STATE macro, change the value after the "b".
> Try (0x0100) or (0x0101).

I did. Both (alone) were ineffective. I left the vallue 0x101 in when I
make the change above.

Having done enough rebooting for the month, I'm leaving it as is unless
something else breaks.

I also upgraded to kernel 2.0.35 in the process: this had no effect on the
messages, but the changes are untested on '34.


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