On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 23:27:06 +0100, Wulfy wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >I suspect that the kernel has acpi enabled. You can check by seeing
> >if the directory /proc/acpi exists and is populated. To use apm,
> >you will need to disable acpi. You do this by passing the argument
> >'acpi=off' to the kernel, either on the grub command line or in the
> >grub configuration file, /boot/grub/menu.lst. (I'm assuming that you
> >use grub; with lilo the procedure is similar.)
> First. Thanks for your help so far.
>
> Further to the last e-mail:
>
> I removed apm using aptitude, it removed libapm0 and powermgmt-base as
> well. Then I checked in my BIOS setup and there's no mention anywhere
> of apm though acpi defaults to S1 (I think that's "shutdown" as opposed
> to "sleep" or "suspend").
>
> Yet I find in my log:
>
> Aug 8 19:22:35 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver
> version 1.16ac)
> Aug 8 19:22:35 localhost kernel: apm: overridden by ACPI.
> Aug 8 19:23:50 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver
> version 1.16ac)
> Aug 8 19:23:50 localhost kernel: apm: overridden by ACPI.
>
> and apm.ko is at /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko .
>
> Should it not have been removed with the other apm-related bits?
apm.ko is the kernel module which contains the APM routines. As such it
is part of the kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7 package. Removing the apm daemon
and apm-related library/tools packages does not (and should not) result
in the removal of kernel modules.
> The only thing in Control Centre under Power Control is Laptop
> Battery. It reports:
>
> Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was
> probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to
> enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then
> rebuild your kernel.
>
> Should there be more under Power Control? If so, how do I get it there?
Try to modprobe "ac", "power" and "battery" and check if that makes any
difference.
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Regards,
Florian