by This is to announce the 0.5 release of the
Advanced Power Managament (APM) driver for Linux 1.2.0
This software is still ALPHA as it will probably still cause
several styles of laptops to crash. Feedback required, both
positive and bugs.
New features since 0.4:
Works with Linux 1.2.0
Paranoid coding of calls to the BIOS
Error messages updated
Multiple device opens
register/unregister functions exported so that
modules can be notified of APM events
apmd now does a sync before allowing the machine
to be suspended
there is some preliminary code to blank the display
There a lots of configuration defines at the start of apm_bios.c
so if the default setup (mine) doesn't work for you, try changing
some of these.
The driver is available from <http://www.auug.org.au/~sfr> and
hopefully soon from
<ftp://ftp.aaug.org.au/pub/unix/linux/apm_bios.0.5.tar.gz>.
Cheers,
Stephen
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