Bug#606017: nvram-wakeup: can't access /dev/mem

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:36:31PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:

> > I'm not part of the nvram-wakeup maintenance team, so I won't make the
> > call, but I do wonder whether this is truly a grave problem in the
> > sense that it renders the package unusable for everyone or whether it
> > is a case of not supporting all possible motherboards (which is
> > a bug, but not a grave one).
> To get the message that the motherboard is not supported i had to recompile my 
> kernel in order to allow access to /dev/mem, which was restricted by default 
> by the kernel itself.

Interesting.  My motherboard is not supported, yet I got that message
without recompiling the kernel.

steve at riemann{~}sudo nvram-wakeup 
nvram-wakeup: Your mainboard is currently not supported.
nvram-wakeup: Please try determining the addresses and sending the following
nvram-wakeup: information back to the maintainers:
nvram-wakeup:  - The addresses you found out (read README.mb)
nvram-wakeup:  - Mainboard vendor:   "ASUSTeK Computer INC."
nvram-wakeup:  - Mainboard type:     "P5Q-E"
nvram-wakeup:  - Mainboard revision: "Rev 1.xx"
nvram-wakeup:  - BIOS vendor:        "American Megatrends Inc."
nvram-wakeup:  - BIOS version:       "0605"
nvram-wakeup:  - BIOS release:       "06/03/2008"

steve at riemann{~}uname -a
Linux riemann 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 18:02:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It is the stock linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package.

Cheers,
-Steve
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