On Thu, 3 May 2001, Sylvester Keil wrote:
> hi! i use a sony vaio notebook (sr1k) with debian potatoand upgraded the
> kernel to version 2.4.3 with the effect that i cannot get apm to work.
>
> in the past i have used 2.4.2 however (to my shame) i don't remember what
> my apm configuration looked like exactly. anyway, i was able to read
> battery status and the computer would shut down and reboot automatically,
> apart from that suspend worked fine.
>
> with the 2.4.3 kernel however, i've already tried all kinds of
> configurations but the computer never shut down automatically and the
> /etc/init.d/apmd causes a crash.
I'm not really sure if it helps but my apm-problems were solved after
loading the apm modul explicitely using modprobe (if apm compiled as
module).
Kind regards
Andreas.
