APM support not found in Kernel ?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:38:19AM -0600, AdabalaP at schneider.com wrote:
> I also read on the archives that turning one of them causes the laptop fan
> not to run, do not know which one ?

To keep things exciting, it depends on the laptop. Generally, though, the
problem here is that some laptops require ACPI to make the fan go, so if you
turn on APM, no ACPI, and therefore no fan.

Mine (a Sony Vaio U101) requires ACPI to make the fan work _properly_, but
luckily it's "fail on" -- without ACPI, it runs at full blast all of the
time, which is at least less dangerous that the alternative.


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