how can i disable APM on dsl

Forum: Laptops
Topic: how can i disable APM on dsl
started by: fenster

Posted by fenster on Mar. 08 2006,20:35

hello

how can i disable APM on dsl

best regards
fenster

Posted by doobit on Mar. 08 2006,20:52

You could use the cheatcode dsl noapm at the boot prompt.

Posted by fenster on Mar. 09 2006,07:55

hello

i have installed gpsdrive on my laptop
but it crashes on startup because the gpsdrive does not
like the battery status
gpsdrive -a (to disable the battery status und power managment does also not work)

i tried at boot apm=off or noapm
but nothing helps gpsdrive crashes and an error message
bat:0 temp:0

i put the HD from the laptop in a pc with the same dsl system
i booted the PC and gpsdrive works fine

i installed debian on the Laptop an gpsdrive works fine

how can i disable all power managment and battery status on
dsl because i will use gpsdrive on dsl

best regards
fenster

Posted by dtf on Mar. 09 2006,10:47

Just a thought but did you try looking at the bios configuration to disable power management?

Posted by fenster on Mar. 09 2006,14:36

hello

no does not realy help
it´s an old ibm thnikpad 365E

perghaps it´s an other thing that the program was killed
on startup

how can i get system logfiles about chrashed programs at startup
gpsdrive -d -D does not tell enough

best regards

Posted by fenster on Mar. 09 2006,17:29

hello

here is the output from dmesg while starting gpsdrive

what does it mean ?
dmesg
Linux version 2.4.26 (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004
.
.
.
eth0: flipped to 10baseT
alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process gpsdrive
alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process gpsdrive
alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process gpsdrive

Posted by Skeletal Bones Haboo on Mar. 13 2006,17:01

Quote (fenster @ Mar. 09 2006,02:55)

how can i disable all power managment and battery status on
dsl because i will use gpsdrive on dsl

Hey all. I've been using the latest version of DSL, and I was wondering how to actually turn this back on. I'm using an IBM thinkpad t22, and not being hugely linux literate, I was hoping someone could show me in the direction on the file that best resembles autoexec.bat in windows, the boot file in other words. It seems that it includes the line "noacpi", which I need to remove so I can get back my battery status indicator. I have no idea where to look

Posted by mrsongs on May 02 2006,17:26

Quote (Guest @ Mar. 13 2006,12:01)

Try /boot/grub/menu.lst.