Laptops :: Plea for APM/ACPI....

Ok, I have run into a problem and am in need of some help. I found that adding 'acpi=off' will get my apm working and I can use the battery monitor. The problem is that with this added to my boot options my persistent home and opt do not work on my frugal install. I have tried all day to get this to work and even went as far as to format my whole drive and start over. When I am running the frugal install script I tried putting it in there along with the usual mydsl, home and opt stuff, with no luck. I than ran the script again without adding 'acpi=off' and home and opt worked as normal, either way the mydsl stuff works. So after spending many hours trying different combinations and ways I am left with the conclusion that if I place 'acpi=off' in the bootline the persistent home and opt dont work and if I leave it out they work as normal. I may wrong (and I hope I am), but if anyone can provide any help I would really appreciate it.

Hmm... usually the bootcodes are "noapm" and "noacpi" ..

Removing the "noapm" may enable apm for you.

I haven't played with that on my boxen,
but I will try it, and relay my feedback..

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ke4nt

Thanks for replying. I forgot to mention, I did try putting 'noacpi' in place of 'acpi=off' but it did not seem to have the same effect (not exactly sure what the difference between the two is) since acpi was still in /proc but no apm. I had also looked at my lilo.conf for 'noapm' but I didnt see it, the only thing I saw was something like apm=power-off.

I certainly agree that some additional support is needed. My Compaq Evo N610c has no fan activity under DSL, regardless of BIOS setting. Definitely something needed.
Ben Wright

I just put here what I find in my lilo.conf with apm working on a toshiba portege7220:

append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce noapic"

this perhaps may help you.
cu
Thomas

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