Re: proposal - Debian laptop package/distribution

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Tuesday 31 August 1999, at 11 h 0, the keyboard of Adam Shand 
<larry@alaska.net> wrote:

> i'd like to see apm work "out of the box" too.  can anyone explain to me why
> apm isn't available as a kernel module? 

Probably because there are many host-specific options, which have to be 
choosen at compile-time, to deal with various bugs.

  x x              [*] Advanced Power Management BIOS support                  
  x x
  x x              [ ]    Ignore USER SUSPEND                                  
  x x
  x x              [*]    Enable PM at boot time                               
  x x
  x x              [*]    Make CPU Idle calls when idle                        
  x x
  x x              [*]    Enable console blanking using APM                    
  x x
  x x              [*]    Power off on shutdown                                
  x x
  x x              [ ]    Ignore multiple suspend                              
  x x
  x x              [ ]    Ignore multiple suspend/resume cycles                
  x x
  x x              [*]    RTC stores time in GMT                               
  x x
  x x              [ ]    Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls               
  x x