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Topic: Plea for APM/ACPI...., Speak up if this is important to you!!!!

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Max

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Posted: July 23 2005,17:06

Prior to version 0.93 (or was 0.91) APM/ACPI was built into the kernel. But it quietly slipped away without much fanfare (or without a not mentioning it had been removed).

It seems lots of us DSLers use old notebooks to run DSL on (I'm running on 3 different models). APM/ACPI support is really really nice to have because we know what our battery status is, lets us put the machine into suspend or hibernate mode, and maybe more important we can access the functions to step-control the processor. For me, this is the difference between the fan running all the time and it not.

I would just like to make a plea to John / Roberts to at least *think* about including this in future releases. Even if it's not in the full release, maybe just to have a "package" with an alternate kernel and instructions how to install it.

If anyone else out there might find this important to them, please speak up...

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Posted: July 23 2005,17:25

The kernel in the current version is exactly the same as in versions 0.8.0 or newer.

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kopsis

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Posted: July 23 2005,18:54

I don't know about ACPI, but APM is definitely in the current DSL image. It's loaded and running on the DSL Thinkpad I'm using right now.

If you've done a frugal install with grub, check your /boot/grub/menu.lst ... by default it adds noapm and noacpi to the kernel boot command.

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Posted: July 23 2005,22:31

Kopsis is right, I have a circa 1998
Thinkpad 380xd, APM is running and I can
use wmbattery, others with slightly newer bioses
cannot.
It seems as APM morphed into ACPI (yes, a gross
over-simplification), the newer bioses catered to, or depended
on this instead of the older APM.
I'm happy to stand corrected on this.
But I can see the need for ACPI for lappy fans.
I don't know what the size penalty of ACPI kernel mod
would be.....

adssse

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,01:55

I have been trying to find out if my laptop is using amp or acpi. Is there a simple way to check? I have tried to run wmapm.tar.gz and wmacpi_1.99r7.dsl without any success. The laptop that I am using is a IBM Thinkpad iSeries 1330.

By using google I came up with this result.
http://www.google.com/search?....=Search
It is a pdf doc for thinkpads. In the description is says "ACPI ready (APM enabled)", but I cant find it in the pdf so I am not sure if it is speaking of my model for sure. I would like to find out which it uses and if it works with dsl as I would love to get a battery monitor working.

I also believe that I read in another thread that apm is turned off by default in dsl. Is this the case, and if it is how would I enable it? I would sincerely appreciate any help with this as I am kind of lost.

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