>> One thing I would like to see when installing Debian on a laptop would >> be a series of setups that optimise for low power consumption such as >> increased intervals between syncs etc. > >i'd like to see apm work "out of the box" too. can anyone explain to me why >apm isn't available as a kernel module? is it just something no one has >done yet, or is their a reason it's impossible.
It hasn't been implemented in the kernel (so it's not a Debian issue). APM is known to cause problems on some machines and I have seen machines oops when running APM in the kernel which would not oops otherwise. So the default Debian kernel can't have APM built in. Maybe we need a special laptop-kernel package with APM... AFAIK Debian can be installed fine without APM support so it's not needed on boot disks. -- I'm in Utrecht. I'd like to meet any Linux users in the area, or any other part of the Netherlands.
