kernel with APM support?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sat Jul 3 15:59:19 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 06:40, Globe Trotter wrote:
> Hi, I tried to use apmsleep as a sudoer on my laptop and get the following:
>
> apmsleep: Your kernel does not support APM.
> apmsleep: Recompile kernel with APM and /dev/rtc support
>
> What is the best way to go about this?
>
> Thanks a bundle, and best wishes!
Very likely your machine supports ACPI, and during boot up
it was enabled, which is mutually exclusive with APM, which
got disabled. apmsleep probably doesn't know about ACPI,
so this is the best it can guess at.
If you really want to try apm, boot with acpi=off
Dave
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