RE: enabling apm on laptop
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:matthew@weierophinney.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:08 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: enabling apm on laptop
>
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> I used to compile my kernels by hand, as it sped up the boot process and
> allowed non-standard hardware (until two years ago, many distros didn't
> ship with USB support enabled as it was still considered experimental,
> and many didn't enable APM in their kernels by default) -- but this was
> using different distros than debian.
>
> APM support is one of the kernel options at compile time -- you can have
> it compiled statically (i.e., loads all the time) or as a module (loads
> if requested), or not at all.
>
> Basically, my experience with the bf2.4 kernels (it wasn't until after
> I'd re-installed our desktop machine's kernel that I realized these were
> the boot floppy kernels) is that they don't have APM compiled in any way
> -- hence the need to install a regular kernel for your architecture.
>
> But if your machine is working with one, send the list the kernel-image
> package name you used as it's another option for the OP.
I'm not sure what you mean by OP. 'uname -r' returns '2.4.18-bf2.4'. It's
what I got from installing sid with the bf2.4 option, which was the only way
I found to get a 2.4 series kernel.
apm is definitely not compiled in. I'm loading it via the module system.
lsmod shows:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
apm 9116 2 (autoclean)
maestro3 25416 1
ac97_codec 9568 0 [maestro3]
soundcore 3204 2 [maestro3]
3c59x 24616 1
keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
input 3040 0 [keybdev]
usb-uhci 20676 0 (unused)
usbcore 48000 1 [usb-uhci]
USB, BTW, also works for my purposes. I suspect PCMCIA doesn't work though
but I don't need that so much.
OT: I had huge problems with compiling my own kernels. Mounting CD roms
would corrupt my harddisk. Since each try to get it working involved
destroying my installation, I quickly lost patience with the exercise and
stuck to the prebuilt kernels.
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