[FC2] apm

[Dave Cross]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:57:31AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> Last night I upgraded my FC1 installation to FC1 on my Samsung
> NV5000 laptop.
> 
> One (of two) major problems that I have is that apm no longer seems to
> work. This manifests itself in two ways:
> 
> a) the battery charge meter no longer works - it shows a red
>    exclaimation mark and shows the battery as empty.
> 
> b) the "suspend computer" command on the battery applet (which is set to
>    "apm -s") no longer suspends the computer.
> 
> I suspect that something has changed with the apm support in FC2
> (perhaps this is a 2.6 or SELinux change), but I can't find anything in
> the release notes.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this or (even better) got a fix?

If anyone's interested, I fixed this by adding "apm=on acpi=off" to the
kernel line in grub.conf.

Dave...

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