Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:24:01PM +, Simon Tod wrote: I've had several different response to this problem... I did run lilo after altering lilo.conf and already have apmd installed - I get a 'No APM support in kernel' message with this as well. I don't get anywhere with the 'modprobe

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 05:22 AM +): On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:24:01PM +, Simon Tod wrote: I've had several different response to this problem... I did run lilo after altering lilo.conf and already have apmd installed - I get a 'No APM

RE: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Charlie Reiman
-Original Message- From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: enabling apm on laptop -- Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 05:22 AM +): On Tue, Dec 10

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Tod
Okay, so 'uname -r' yields 2.4.19 and modprobe does exist (wasn't running it as root...) but 'modprobe apm' yields the response modprobe: Can't locate module apm. Now I have apm installed and it's in the file /etc/modules BUT I cannot find a compiled file apm.o in /lib/modules/2.4.19 or any of its

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 09:06 AM -0800): -Original Message- From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:20 AM -- Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002,

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 05:15 PM +): Okay, so 'uname -r' yields 2.4.19 and modprobe does exist (wasn't running it as root...) but 'modprobe apm' yields the response modprobe: Can't locate module apm. Now I have apm installed and it's in the

RE: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Charlie Reiman
-Original Message- From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: enabling apm on laptop -- Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 09:06 AM -0800): . I

RE: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Charlie Reiman
-Original Message- From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: enabling apm on laptop I used to compile my kernels by hand, as it sped up the boot process and allowed non-standard

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 01:08 PM -0800): -Original Message- From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:08 PM I used to compile my kernels by hand, as it sped up the

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-10 Thread D.
--- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so this isn't enough to solve the problem. I've added apm on a new line to /etc/modules and added append=apm=on to lilo.conf (b4 running lilo...) BUT /proc/apm doesn't exist, so when I try and run apm I get the message 'No APM support in

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-10 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, 10 December 2002, 07:41 AM -0800): --- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so this isn't enough to solve the problem. I've added apm on a new line to /etc/modules and added append=apm=on to lilo.conf (b4 running lilo...) BUT /proc/apm

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-10 Thread Simon Tod
I've had several different response to this problem... I did run lilo after altering lilo.conf and already have apmd installed - I get a 'No APM support in kernel' message with this as well. I don't get anywhere with the 'modprobe apm' suggestions (don't know what modprobe is and can't find it to

enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-09 Thread Simon Tod
Bit of a simple newbie question I fear.. I've got Woody up and running on my laptop but must have missed something during installation as I don't have APM enabled in the kernel; I tried to get aGNOME battery monitor applet running without success, and the machine just hangs at 'Power Down'

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.12.09 12:12 Simon Tod wrote: Bit of a simple newbie question I fear.. I've got Woody up and running on my laptop but must have missed something during installation as I don't have APM enabled in the kernel; I tried to get a GNOME battery monitor applet running without success, and

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-09 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Monday, 09 December 2002, 08:58 PM +): Okay, so this isn't enough to solve the problem. I've added apm on a new line to /etc/modules and added append=apm=on to lilo.conf (b4 running lilo...) BUT /proc/apm doesn't exist, so when I try and run apm I