APM Blues

Simon Bonner simon.bonner at mail.mcgill.ca
Fri Nov 25 18:18:39 UTC 2005


Hi Everyone,

I'm running FC on a Dell Inspiron 8200, Pentium 4-M 1.7 Ghz. I had been 
running FC1 and APM was working perfectly. In October I installed FC4, 
and now I can't get into standby. At startup I'm using the kernel 
parameters: acpi=off apm=on resume=force.

Here's what happens:

1. From the command line:
- Executing 'apm -S' as a normal user returns 'permission denied'. (OK, 
I can probably change permissions somewhere, but haven't looked into 
this yet because...)
- Executing 'apm -S' as root returns me to a new prompt. After a few 
seconds a message comes up saying 'parameter out of range' and the 
machine does not go into standby.

2. Suspend button (runlevel 3):
- If I push the suspend button (Fn+Esc)  while in runlevel 3 (no X), the 
machine does go into standby- once. When I resume the clock is set back 
8 hours, but everything else seems OK. However, pushing suspend again 
has no effect.

3. Suspend button (runlevel5):
- If I push the suspend button while in X the machine suspends, but I 
only get a black screen on resume. I have to power of and restart.

Can anyone suggest what might be happening or where I should start 
looking? Has anyone seen similar behavioiur- and fixed it! I did look 
through the message logs, but these didn't provide any indication of 
what was going on.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Simon




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