Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.103-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
/etc/acpi/*/90-hdparm.sh sets the APM mode to 254 or 128 (-B 128 / -B
254). This fails in VMware guests, for both SCSI and IDE devices. I
suggest you apply the attached patch to 90-hdparm.sh, which prevents
the APM mode from being set if Linux is running on a virtual machine.
Also, there are 4 copies of 90-hdparm.sh in /etc/acpi:
ac.d/90-hdparm.sh
battery.d/90-hdparm.sh
resume.d/90-hdparm.sh
start.d/90-hdparm.sh
I suggest you either apply the patch to all four, or you apply it to
one of them and turn the other three scripts into symlinks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii acpi-support-base 0.103-5 scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii acpid 1.0.4-7.1 Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii dmidecode 2.9-1 Dump Desktop Management Interface
ii finger 0.17-12 user information lookup program
ii hdparm 8.6-1 tune hard disk parameters for high
ii laptop-detect 0.13.6 attempt to detect a laptop
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-11 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii nvclock 0.8b3-1 Allows you to overclock your nVidi
ii powermgmt-base 1.30 Common utils and configs for power
ii radeontool 1.5-5 utility to control ATI Radeon back
ii toshset 1.73-2 Access much of the Toshiba laptop
ii vbetool 1.0-3 run real-mode video BIOS code to a
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+2 X server utilities
acpi-support recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- 90-hdparm.sh~ 2007-12-13 14:35:00.000000000 -0500
+++ 90-hdparm.sh 2008-05-17 17:22:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
DO_HDPARM=n
fi
fi
+if [ "`which vmware-checkvm`" -a vmware-checkvm > /dev/null ]; then
+ DO_HDPARM=n
+fi
if [ $DO_HDPARM = y ] ; then
AC_POWER=$( /usr/bin/on_ac_power; echo $? )
