Re: apm

["steven k. thompson" <skt@stat.psu.edu>]

Thanks, everyone.  Adding append="apm=on" to the lilo.conf file
seems to have enabled apm, except for hibernation, which perhaps
I messed up when I shrunk the Windows partition using fips
to create the space for Debian.  Any way to get hibernation
back that anyone knows of?

Steve

Stefano wrote:
> 
> More easily you can add something like:  append="apm=on" to the lilo.conf file
> 
> Bye,
> Stefano
> 
> At 23.34 07/03/01 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:07:26AM -0500, steven k. thompson wrote:
> >> I installed Debian 2.2r2 on my laptop and as I boot I
> >> see the message "APM disabled at user request".  I presume
> >> it would be better not to have it disable.  Can someone
> >> tell me how this disabling happened and how I change it?
> >>
> >
> >The way I understand, some BIOS cannot handle apm, and therefore it is
> >switched off in the stock Debian kernels by default.  You can turn it back
> >on by adding apm=on or something similar to the boot command line when you
> >boot.
> >
> >But a better thing to do is to recompile your kernel yourself, so you can
> >make sure it's generally optimised for your system.  If you do this, you can
> >also turn apm to turn on at boot by default.
> >
> >Drew
> >
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