I raised this as bug 42258, and Herbert Xu fixed it in his upload a week ago. It was a Debian request ages ago that got APM to be boot-time configurable even if compiled in, although on unpatched kernels it still defaults to on rather than off.
Some documentation is clearly needed - maybe apmd should mention it when it gets installed? Liloconfig? Joey Hess wrote: > I just installed kernel 2.2.12 on my laptop, and was having some trouble > getting apm working. it said "apm disabled on user request" at boot time. > Well, some grepping the kernel sources found that passing "apm=on" to the > kernel at boot time enables it now. I can't find any record or docs of this > change. > > This strikes me as potentially a very good change. Wouldn't it mean we can > build apm into our stock kernels now? It will be off by default, but laptop > users can turn it own w/o too much bother.
