APM support not found in Kernel ?

[Amy M]

I appended "acpi=off apm=on" to the kernel line but still received the 
message that APM is not supported by the kernel.

I also noticed that, when I tried to invoke apm, my fan never stopped 
running. Thanks to a previous message, I know my notebook (HP ze4560) 
does not provide apm.  (Does any one think a newer BIOS may help this?)

So I went back to acpi.  The command "echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep" put the 
system to sleep.  But, I was not able to wake it up.  I had to do a hard 
reboot.

Tough luck!  But my wholehearted thanks for the discussions and helpful 
comments.


Matt Morgan wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:47:00 -0600, AdabalaP at schneider.com
><AdabalaP at schneider.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Mine is a "Compaq Presario 1277" laptop, How can i determine if this
>>requires a ACPI or APM to have the fan running ?
>>    
>>
>
>You're running acpi now. Does the fan work? If so, you're done.
>
>If not, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf (make a backup copy first). Find the
>line or lines that start with 'kernel' and add "acpi=off" (without the
>quotes) to the end of those lines. Reboot. Now you will be running
>apm. If the fan works, then apm is probably what you want. If the fan
>still doesn't work, I don't know what to suggest.
>
>By the way, I learned all this by searching and reading the list
>archives. It's fun--I recommend it. Find a link at the end of every
>list message, or go to
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
>
>where some good people maintain another archive (with a more reliable
>searching tool) of the list.
>
>good luck,
>Matt
>
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