Re: APM support not found in Kernel ?

[Amy M]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Try using following order: "apm=on acpi=off", It worked for me, My fan also
> works.

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 !
>                  Amy M                                                                                                              
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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?)
>
> 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:
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:47:00 -0600, [e-mail]
> >  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
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> > 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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