Re: apm this and that

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.dial-up.user.akula.net>]

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i'd appreciate if u'll send your GENERIC kernel dmesg containing apminfo
printing.
10x
cu

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Federico G. Schwindt:
> Hello,
> 
>    I've running 2.3 on my notebook, TI Extensa 390, with the GENERIC kernel 
> and I have a few questions regarding apm and pcmcia support.    When I 
> reboot my machine I got this:
> 
> 	apm at bios0 function 0x15 not configured
> 
>    What it means?    If I try to run the apm daemon I got a similar error:
> 
> 	apmd: cannot open device file `/dev/apmctl': Device not configured
> 
>    I haven't find any kind of info about this (maybe is in the missing 
> apm(4) manpage?).
> 
>    For the pcmcia part I got this:
> 
>    vendor "Texas Instruments", unknown product 0xac16 (class bridge, 
> subclass CardBus, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured
> 
>    Again, what it means? What should I see if a pcmcia controller is 
> detected in my notebook?
> 
>    There are a couple of missing files related to the pcmcia documentation:
> 
>    config_slot(8), pcmcia(4)
> 
>    And the manpage for pcmciad isn't clear enough for me.
>    What should I have to put in /etc/pcmciad.conf? Just the name of device 
> or the complete path for it?
>    Best regards,
> 
>    Federico Schwindt.-
> 
>