Ralf Hein wrote: > > I run Debian on a Inspiron 4000, and APM _does_ work. It's only a 2.2 kernel > though, for there is afaik no support for winmodems in 2.4, and this model
What sort of winmodem? My Inspiron is connected right now through the Dell built-in Lucent modem, using a 2.4.17 kernel. You have to get the ltmodem source though, and the kernel-headers. But it's easy enough to do with make-kpkg > has such a funny device. Anyway, 'halt' shuts the machine down, 'supend' > suspends it (to memory, since I accidently deleted the suspend-partition and > can't get it back on), closing the lid suspends it too, etc. Did you _ever_ have suspend-to-disk working under Linux? You can actually get the software to remake the partition from Dell (and I have it but haven't tried it because ACPI isn't ready to support s2d yet anyway). > Even the battery monitor shows usefull and surprisingly reliable data. > > No idea about the original problem though. Seems like modprobe is looking for > a setting it can't get due to a broken implementation of something (ACPI?). Well, without applying the latest patches ACPI is definitely going to be broken. Even with them, I don't think you can get full support for Dells -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
