Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@attbi.com>]

On 13-Dec-2001 Michael Hothorn wrote:
> 
> 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 
> 

I hate to ask this, but are you booting the right kernel?  Any chance you are
booting Debian's by mistake?