Re: APM support in kernel?
>
> Or, I suppose, default debian kernel configuration.
>
> After being away from Debian for quite a while, deceded to give the
> apt-get system a try. Loaded it onto my Toshiba (Sattelite something,
> 266 mhz). Downloaded boot(rescue) and root disks, plugged in PCMCIA
> ethernet card, plugged into DSL and booted up.
>
> <sound of gigantic slurping as it sucked the wires dry>
:D
> My problem:
>
> The kernel comes without APM support. OK -- compile one in. Trivial,
> yes?
maybe, but probably sufficient to add
append="apm=on"
... to your lilo.conf.
(this is a rather common question, though you mightn't know that).
As a general note to the crowd - I'm getting *reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally*
tired of seeing this question, but hearing the lame excuse from our
kernel-image maintainers that it's this way because an occasional
brain-damaged (or way too smart, SMP systems are fragile this way) system
out there hangs when APM is turned on.
Howsabout we start a kernel-image-nn.n.nn-laptop kernel set? Anyone else
like the idea? Then we can turn on all sorts of things that make desktops
queasy.
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
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