Richard Dansereau said: > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically > compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have > it in all of the time.. even if your machine does not have APM.
If it's compiled with APM support, it will always be there... (It's not available as a module.) The reason the default kernels don't include APM support is that there are a lot of not-fully-compliant BIOSes floating around. A lot of the APM functions have notes in their help text stating that Acme Model 13 systems won't like having them enabled. Even the simple poweroff support that was asked about includes the note As with the other APM options, this option may not work reliably with some APM BIOS implementations. -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+
