apm strangeness
I had kernel-2.4.17-686-image running just fine w/ apm
support on my Dell Latitude. I think it's very nice of
the package maintainers to include that, btw. I have
the line append="apm=on" in my lilo.conf. Yesterday I
installed kernel-2.4.18-686-image. Now when booting
back into 2.4.17, wmbattery won't start. I tried
starting it on the command line, and it says no apm
support in the kernel. I also have apmd installed. One
of the early lines in /etc/init.d/apmd runs
/usr/lib/apmd/ampd/apm_exists , which I assume must
return a boolean value or non-zero or something or
else the script exits. An even earlier line looks for
the existance of /usr/sbin/apmd or cause the script to
exit. Both of those files exist, what is going on
here? If I run apm_exists from the command line I get
nada. Can anyone point in the right direction to solve
this? Why would it work before installing 2.4.18? I
also did an dist-upgrade yesterday.
TIA
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