[SLUG] APM and Xfree4.0

["Steven downing" <steven.downing@xxxxxxxx>]

Here's the story.  My home machine dual boot win98 - RH6.2 has two hd's, and when I boot Redhat(unmodified kernel), it says something akin to
hda: APM. Get Event not present.
when the hard drives are intialised.  Hda is the Win98 disk.
Once up and running I don't have the apmd daemon active.
AFAIK this is for laptops??
Then the bad things start to happen.  When running mc it will often give messages like:  apm. can't enter expected state.
And when running pppd under GNOME, I've had two serious lock ups, where the whole thing dies and I can't even ctrl-alt to other terminals.  Have to do a manual power-off.  And nothing really shows up in /var/log/messages when I get back in.  From memory this has happened a couple of times AFTER I have accessed hda1, which is mounted under Linux, but it doesn't always happen.
Shutdown -r and shutdown -h seem to be able to reset and turn off. Ok, so any ideas??  Sorry about the lack of hard info, just give me an idea what you think MIGHT be a cause and i'll try track stuff down.

X.free.  Anyone know where XFREE4.0.1 places the modelines/timings which used to be in /etc/X11/XF86Config ??  I need to shift my picture horizontally without using the monitor hardware aiming.

thanks all
Steve