APM in 2.4.18

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Wed May 1 12:36:11 EST 2002


On Wed, 1 May 2002, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2002 12:21:14 +1000 Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > > Reboot with "apm=debug" on the kernel command line and send us your boot
> > > messages and a description of your laptop (make, model etc).
> >
> > Ok, the laptop is an IBM X21 (so, it should work, yah?). I assume you mean
> > dmesg for the boot messages -- there are many instances of the word APM
> > (I've also included the .config file):
>
> OK, it *should* work ... But your dmesg output shows that the apm driver
> is not even being initialised.  Is this a stock Linus kernel, or from a
> distro?  Are you certain you are running the kernel that goes with the
> .config you posted?

This is stock 2.4.18 from kernel.org. To confirm it's the right one (I'm
very sure, but what they hey), I'll recompile from scratch and reinstall
it and give it another try.

Any other hints?

Mikal

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Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com)     UMT+10hrs





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