Andrey Schwedovitch posted <43A6A0FA.1070003@...>, excerpted
below,  on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:00:58 +0300:

> Duncan wrote:
> 
>>The APM thing is legacy power management.  You get the warning because
>>you probably have newer equipment that doesn't use that old power
>>management stuff any more.  You can eliminate the warning by placing An
>>'Option "NoPM"' line in your xorg, in 'Section "ServerFlags"'.  The newer
>>power management stuff should continue to operate normally, or it does
>>here, anyway.
>>  
> NoPM disables only APM or completely disables power managment (ACPI, APM
> etc.) ?

I /believe/ it only disables APM.  Either that, or what it disables, KDE
later enables due to the settings I have in it.  In any case, it works the
way I expect, that being I don't get the warning, but my monitors continue
to go into power saving mode after the usual timeout, in X/KDE.

Naturally, try it.  If it works for you, use it.  If it doesn't, don't. 
However, I can't see that specifically turning off something that the
warning says is disabled anyway, thus avoiding that warning, will change
anything except getting the warning.  <g>

> GOOGLE is a great tool!!! :-)
> 
> Tip to disable "RenderAccel" in xorg.conf helps me! :-)

Google is very cool for this sort of thing, indeed. =8^)

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