On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Well, this distro _does_ include APM support compiled into the kernel. > > However, that support is turned off by default because it's insane to > > not support the least common denominator. > > > > If you read the thread you'll see lots of folks suggesting the > > "apm=on" append line or kernel boot argument ... that turns on the APM > > support that's in the stock kernel :) > > > > In short, you didn't have to recompile the kernel to get APM, though > > there are plenty of good reasons to compile your own kernel IMO. > > It looks like you have to recompile the kernel to get that feature. I > use kernel-image-2.4.4-1 (supposedly unstable package ported to > potato) and it does not seem to have apm support enabled. APM support was included in the stock 2.2.x kernels. Since we're talking about potato I think my statement stands. > root@ping:~# apmd > No APM support in kernel > > "dmesg" doesn't show any apm related messages. Yes, I could recompile > the kernel but I really don't like doing that when I administer a > large number of not very identically configured systems. It seems to > be very inflexible having to recompile the kernel just to get > poweroff to work. Did you try acpid instead? I don't understand why everyone thinks it's so hard to compile kernels ... kernel-package makes it trivial. Since you end up with a deb it doesn't matter if you want to install on one machine or 1000 ... BTW, your mailer appears to be broken as it completely ignored my Mail-Followup-To: header. I read the lists and I neither need nor appreciate Cc:s -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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