Hi there, Quite simply there are R40's that do support APM. However, the R40e is not one of them. So, the short answer is that you cannot use APM with any kernel on an R40e. You must use ACPI, and there are problems with the processor.o and thermal.o modules on that machine as well. Sorry Pete On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:00, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Hello > > I installed Knoppix 3.3, which comes with kernel > 2.4.22-xfs on the R40. Per default apm seems to be turned off > apm -s returns > no APM support in the kernel. > > Indeed as one can see in the files > > modules.conf: > options apm power_off=1 > and in lilo.conf > append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi > hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce" > > So I commented out the lines above and rebooted, with no effect > whatsover on the apm support. > > Next step was to download the 2.4.24 kernel, > I run make xonfig, selected monolitic apm support, > run make dep, make bzImage and configured lilo.conf. > > When booting the new kernel to my surprise > apm -s gave me the same result: > > No APM support in the kernel! > > > > In the Linux for Laptop site, people who successfully got APM to work, > used the 2.6 kernel, but I would prefer for the moment to stick on > the 2.4 kernel. > > > Can anybody help me? > > Thanks > > Uwe Brauer
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