Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel apm code | From | John Fremlin <> | Date | 28 Mar 2001 16:05:38 +0100 |
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David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> writes:
> John Fremlin wrote: > > > > David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> writes:
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> > The maintainer hasn't the time to do it. He promised me he would in > > February, when I telephone, but hasn't bothered to do anything > > AFAICS. I hacked together the following patch for it a while ago, > > which updated APM_IOC_REJECT for slightly more recent kernels (be > > warned, I think I made some mistakes) > > It uses the same version number ( 1.15 ) as the "official" apm.c ( > at linuxcare.com.au/apm ). I don't think that is a good idea. Maybe > 1.14b ?
Well it's not going to go anywhere unless you want to look after it so there's not much point in worrying about that :-)
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> > I made a (IMHO) better version called pmpolicy, based on different > > principles. More information is available at > > > > http://john.snoop.dk/programs/linux/offbutton/
> To implement off-button you only need the APM_IOC_REJECT ioctl and
The problem on my computer with my (re)implementation of APM_IOC_REJECT is that the screen goes into powersaving when the user suspend is received, then turns it back on when APM_IOC_REJECT is sent by apmd. Stephen said this was something wrong with my implementation (???). Anyway it is fixed in my pmpolicy patch, and I don't need no daemon so the code is a lot cleaner and simpler (no binary magic number interfaces).
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