Re: enabling apm on laptop
-- Charlie Reiman <creiman@kefta.com> wrote
(on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 01:08 PM -0800):
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:matthew@weierophinney.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:08 PM
> ........
> > 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.
OP = Original Poster -- the person who posted the original
problem/question.
> 'uname -r' returns '2.4.18-bf2.4'.
Okay, so that's the kernel -- if the OP is reading this, this one is
also evidently an option.
> 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.
Right -- that's how debian kernels are done; drivers/options are
compiled as modules, and very little is actually enabled by default. So,
in this case, the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, apm *is* enabled as a module for
the kernel
> USB, BTW, also works for my purposes. I suspect PCMCIA doesn't work though
> but I don't need that so much.
And, if you need it, there are other kernels that have associated
pcmcia-module packages, and you can install them later.
> 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.
Wow -- never had that one. I had great success with every kernel I
compiled, except when I was trying to build one for a machine that got
its IP address via DHCP; I didn't realize there were two kernel options
the dhcpcd daemon required. That situation was quickly corrected though.
I'm curious what could have happened that mounting a CD would corrupt
your harddisk...
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
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