APM Kernel Support

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:42:11PM -0400, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
 > Even though APM is supposed to be compiled into the kernel on FC4 "so I 
 > understand", is there documentation somewhere that explains how to 
 > recompile the kernel with APM support?  I have tried googling it but really 
 > didn't have any luck on finding something specific to APM.
 > 
 > I have tried the following (That makes me believe there is no Kernel 
 > Support):
 > Append acpi=off in the grub.conf file, I tried to susped my machine and I 
 > got the following:
 > They Suspend Command '/usr/bin/apm -s' was unsucssful" and if I do it from 
 > the command line it tells me "No APM Support in Kernel".
 > 
 > That is the same error that I get when I don't have "acpi=off" to the 
 > grub.conf file.

CONFIG_APM=y in Fedora kernels. ACPI will override this, but acpi=off
should do the right thing.  What does your dmesg say when you boot
with this option ? Do you have a /proc/apm ?

		Dave