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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    [gentoo-desktop] Re: Two leads on the X lockups
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2004-10-29 13:52:33
Message-ID: pan.2004.10.29.13.52.33.247818 () cox ! net
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A. Gabriel W. Daleson posted
<200410281917.i9SJHFdE023913@rigel.cs.pdx.edu>, excerpted below,  on Thu,
28 Oct 2004 12:17:09 -0700:

>  /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old, has the following:
> 
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)

Note that that's a warning, not an error.  X continues on without it.  It
should not be related at all to your crash.

However, to avoid the warning, add the following to your xorg.conf file:

Under section "ServerFlags:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "NoPM"
EndSection

(You may say Option "NoPM" "True", if desired, but binary options default
to true if encountered at all, so having it there is true, and commenting
it would be the same as changing it to false.)

Without the option, it turns the feature off when it can't find support in
the hardware/BIOS, but it sets that warning in the log.  Turning it off
explicitly avoids the logged warning, but operationally, it doesn't
matter, since it's off due to not finding support for it anyway.

I have no idea on the /var/log/messages error you posted, but it shouldn't
be related in the slightest to the xorg APM warning.

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