if machine start with apm: load apm module before start powersaved

[Danny Kukawka]

If you start a machine without ACPI support and e.g. with APM (used kernel parameter acpi=off on a IBM ThinkPad T21) the startscript should start powersaved without -f option for the path to the acpid event socket.

If you start powersave with -f on APM you can't suspend to ram or trigger standby.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Will try to detect APM in powersaved startup script and exclude -f parameter (ACPI specific) in that case.

[Danny Kukawka (danny-kukawka)]

Should be simple to add this check. On SUSE we use this lines:

ACPI_APM='$powersave_BIN --apm-acpi'
if [ "$ACPI_APM" = "ACPI" ]; then
 ....
elif [ "$ACPI_APM" = "APM" ]; then

[Danny Kukawka (danny-kukawka)]

We investigated the problem. If the machine is on APM the apm module is loaded after powersave is started. This is the problem. You should load on Kubuntu the apm module earlier (e.g. in the powersave init script) or start powersave later in the init process.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

I have added loading of apm kernel module in check_apm_acpi() method in /etc/init.d/powersaved. I think this should fix it for APM machines.

I will upload new package (0.12.11) this evening to kubuntu.no-ip.org.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

0.12.11 with the patch to load "apm" module was released to Dapper universe.
Please reopen if you see this problem again.