On 5 Jun, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through
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from my XF86Config file...
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
But my kernel config says...
CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU=y
The only thing unusual is I am running devfs..
Poor boy... ;)
Na. I run devfs on my Powerbook, and I am very happy. Never had any
problem. I am absolutely certain (even if it may not be true :-) that
using devfs saves me quite a number of HD spinups.
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so i checked /dev
heliosphan dev # find . -name *apm*
./misc/apm_bios
./apm_bios
/dev/misc/apm_bios has perms:
crw------- 1 mutex root 10, 134 Dec 31 1969 apm_bios
Mine show this:
mlan@pooh:~$ ll /dev/apm_bios /dev/misc/apm_bios
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 2003-05-14 22:42 /dev/apm_bios -> misc/apm_bios
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 134 1970-01-01 01:00 /dev/misc/apm_bios
This is with the Debian devfs package, which _may_ fix up a few things.
My devfs config says this:
mlan@pooh:/etc/devfs$ find . -type f |xargs grep apm
/conf.d/apm:REGISTER ^misc/apm_bios$ PERMISSIONS root.root 0660
/conf.d/pmud:REGISTER ^misc/apm_bios$ PERMISSIONS root.root 0660
/perms:REGISTER ^misc/apm_bios PERMISSIONS root.root 0660
plus this one for setting up symlinks:
mlan@pooh:/etc/devfs$ head compat_symlinks
# Enable full compatibility mode for old device names. You may comment these
# out if you don't use the old device names. Make sure you know what you're
# doing!
REGISTER .* MKOLDCOMPAT
UNREGISTER .* RMOLDCOMPAT
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are those normal permissions ? Also, I'm running an enlightenment
battery applet which afaik uses apm layer to report battery level.
So something has to be working. Dave
I don't know wtf with devfs & perms, but the problem is here, once you
fix that, it should work much better ;)
I'm tempted to say: install Debian :-)
Cheers
Michel
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