Re: Unexpected APM functionality after installing gnome2.2 backport

["M. Kirchhoff" <listless@0ubliette.org>]

Quoting James Strandboge <jstrand1@rochester.rr.com>:

> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:57, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I recently picked up a second-hand laptop (IBM Thinkpad 570).  I installed
> Woody
> > per the usual and found that APM seemed to work fine for putting the laptop
> to
> > sleep.  However, when issuing the "halt" command to shut the system down,
> it
> > would only go as far as saying "Power Down", i.e. I would have to
> physically
> > flip the power switch to completely shut it down.  
> > 
> > Completely unrelated, I installed Jamie's backported Gnome2.2 stuff, which
> went
> > fine.  This time when issuing "halt", the laptop completely powered off on
> its
> > own, much to my surprise.
> > 
> > So my question is what is in the Gnome2.2 stuff that would have fixed this
> on
> > its own, and, more importantly, is it a package that can be installed and
> used
> > independently from Gnome (say I want to remove Gnome completely and use
> > something like Blackbox for better performace, but still want the system to
> be
> > able to completely power off on its own).
> 
> Sounds like you had the battery status applet loaded, which would load
> the apm module, which would allow the power down.  If not using gnome,
> just make sure that apm gets started (/etc/init.d/apmd start should be
> all there is to it).
> 
> Jamie
> 
> 
> 

Thanks!  Turns out it *was* simply the apm modules being loaded.