Re: Problems with Dell 510C and modprobe

["Derek Broughton" <derek_broughton@hotmail.com>]

Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:44, Lars G. T. Jorgensen wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>Ive been looking around the net about the Dell laptops and APM. But I
>>havent found the solution to my specific problem witch is. That
>>modprobe apm hangs forever(*) with a 2.4.18-686 kernel. The list
>>archive says something about some APCI options when building the
>>kernel. But the funny thing is that "insmod apm" works just fine. 
>>Does anyone have some suggestions to a solution?
> 
> Do you have Local APIC or IO APIC (not the same as ACPI which is related
> to power management) enabled in the kernel? If you have, APM won't work
> and the symptoms will be really strange. The machine will behave like
> you fed it something inappropriate.
...
> - I then run "make-kpkg --initrd --revision inspiron.x.x kernel_image"

But this is not an Inspiron.  I'm not sure whether this advice applies 
to Latitudes.  If it _was_ an Inspiron, the whole problem is APM - which 
isn't supported.  I don't know whether Lars' machine uses APM or ACPI.
--
derek