Re: Lockup since 2.4.4 when switching from X to console

[Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jani Jaakkola wrote:
> 

> There are lots of motherboards around which have somewhat broken APM
> support or at least do not work correctly with Linux APM. Many of these
> machines just hang, when console blanking or unblanking using APM is
> attempted. This is not XFS spesific and is not even 2.4 kernel spesific.

See, the point is that with a vanilla kernel it works without a problem
but with the kdb patch applied it locks up. So somehow the kdb patch
breaks the apm stuff and this should be investigated and, if possible,
resolved.

Juri