Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

[Thomas Vogels <tov@ece.cmu.edu>]

Michael Hothorn <mhothorn@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I switched from potato to woody on my thinkpad i1200. APM support worked
> for t 2.2.19 very well. Installing 2.4.16 with the same options
> 
> 	<*>   Advanced Power Management BIOS support               
>         [ ]     Ignore USER SUSPEND                   
>         [*]     Enable PM at boot time                         
>   	[ ]     Make CPU Idle calls when idle           
>   	[ ]     Enable console blanking using APM      
>         [*]     RTC stores time in GMT      
>         [*]     Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls  
>         [*]     Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off      
> 
> After booting the new kernel, apm says: Kernel build with no APM
> support. /proc/apm does not exist!
> 
> append= apm=on in /etc/lilo.conf does not change anything 
> 
> any ideas?

Yes.  Make APM a module and add 'apm' to /etc/modules.  Works for me
with 2.4.14...  (You don't need the append line in this case.)
  -tom

> 
> bye
> micha 
> 
> 
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