Re: apm support changes 2.2.19 > 2.4.16

[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>]

Hi Michael,

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:53:08 +0100 (CET)
Michael Hothorn <mhothorn@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Have you accidentally enabled ACPI support?  Can you post your boot messages?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/