APM support not found in Kernel ?

[Amy M]

AdabalaP at schneider.com wrote:

>Try using following order: "apm=on acpi=off", It worked for me, My fan also
>works.
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Nope.  That did not help.  But when I tried to configure my BIOS 
settings, I did not find an entry on power management.  Perhaps this is 
an indication that my notebook (HP ze4560) did not have apm.



> Thanks for everyones help !
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>I appended "acpi=off apm=on" to the kernel line but still received the
>message that APM is not supported by the kernel.
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>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?)
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>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.
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>Tough luck!  But my wholehearted thanks for the discussions and helpful
>comments.
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>Matt Morgan wrote:
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>>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:47:00 -0600, AdabalaP at schneider.com
>><AdabalaP at schneider.com> wrote:
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>>>Mine is a "Compaq Presario 1277" laptop, How can i determine if this
>>>requires a ACPI or APM to have the fan running ?
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>>You're running acpi now. Does the fan work? If so, you're done.
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
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>>where some good people maintain another archive (with a more reliable
>>searching tool) of the list.
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>>good luck,
>>Matt
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