Bug 134589

Summary:	/dev/apm_bios is missing on Pegasos
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	peter czanik <peter>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PowerPC
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description peter czanik 2005-11-20 19:30:38 UTC

In every 5 seconds I get a syslog message on my Pegasos:

Nov 20 20:25:43 linux [powersave]: ERROR (openHWEventFD:70) Could not open APM device /dev/apm_bios: 'No such device', exit.

Comment 2 Thomas Renninger 2005-12-12 11:34:15 UTC

... PPC ..., Olaf (Hering) can you help here?
Powersave probably should not throw out this message all the time.
I expect that there is /proc/apm, in this case there should/must be /dev/apm_bios?
If there is neither /proc/apm nor /dev/apm_bios on an APM machine, powersave should end up or at least go silently into background (with a message "powersave has not much functionality" or similar).
If powersave daemon finds /proc/apm and the char device /dev/apm_bios does not exist, it creates the device, but kernel support behind seem to be missing?

Peter: could you describe your machine a bit more in detail, please.

Comment 3 Thomas Renninger 2005-12-21 12:12:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140032 ***