Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:44, Lars G. T. Jorgensen wrote: > >>Hi >> >>Ive been looking around the net about the Dell laptops and APM. But I >>havent found the solution to my specific problem witch is. That >>modprobe apm hangs forever(*) with a 2.4.18-686 kernel. The list >>archive says something about some APCI options when building the >>kernel. But the funny thing is that "insmod apm" works just fine. >>Does anyone have some suggestions to a solution? > > Do you have Local APIC or IO APIC (not the same as ACPI which is related > to power management) enabled in the kernel? If you have, APM won't work > and the symptoms will be really strange. The machine will behave like > you fed it something inappropriate. ... > - I then run "make-kpkg --initrd --revision inspiron.x.x kernel_image"
But this is not an Inspiron. I'm not sure whether this advice applies to Latitudes. If it _was_ an Inspiron, the whole problem is APM - which isn't supported. I don't know whether Lars' machine uses APM or ACPI. -- derek
