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Re: Linux on 701C: "Unrecognized device ID"

To: ct5xx-hackers@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Linux on 701C: "Unrecognized device ID"
From: "David Bateman" <dbateman@masi.ibp.fr>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:05:50 +0200
Cc: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu, bjoern@stabell.priv.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Sep 1996 23:14:58 +0200." <199609082114.XAA00637@dindin.sima.sintef.no>

>Hi,
>
>I'm running GNU/Debian Linux 1.1 with APM on my IBM ThinkPad 701C,
>and it has been bothering me for quite some time that whenever I
>switch virtual console, and whenever screen blanking occurs,
>the kernel spews out the message:
>
>  apm_bios: set display ready: Unrecognized device ID
>
>to the console and syslog.
>
>Have anyone managed to get rid of this in a proper way?  I.e., make
>Linux recognize the 701C device ID or whatever it takes?  Or, is
>anyone running Linux on their 701C and not experiencing this problem?
>

Hi,

	Which kernel version are you using? There has been some reports
that the APM blank screen option in the 2.0 kernels (probably earlier 1.3
kernels as well) can cause problems. So a suggestion might be to experiment
with the APM options when building the kernel.

David

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Linux on 701C: "Unrecognized device ID"
  - From: Olav Kvittem <Olav.Kvittem@uninett.no>
- Re: Linux on 701C: "Unrecognized device ID"
  - From: Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au

References:
- Linux on 701C: "Unrecognized device ID"
  - From: Bjørn Stabell <bjoern@stabell.priv.no>

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