Re: apm

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:50:31AM -0700, Charles Baker wrote:
> Something seems to have broken my apm. My bios and
> wmbattery show that my Dell Latitude battery is 100%
> charged. However, everytime I remove the power cable,
> the laptop just loses power. Does anyone have a clue?
> I'm running sid w/ kernel 2.4.18-686 as packaged. Lilo
> has append="apm=on". ``cat /proc/apm`` yeilds "1.16
> 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 100% 382" as root but "1.16
> 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ?" as a normal user.
> apmd version 3.0.2-1.19 is installed w/ no extra
> configuration. Anyone have a clue for me?

Did you activated "apm" modules?
# insmod apm

Pre-package kernel is highly modular.  "Debian reference" (below URL)
also talk about other 2.4 stambling points :)
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 I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.


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