On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... | I realize that old 2.2 stock kernel had apm compiled in but new 2.4 | kernel comes with apm as module.
Osamu: Thanks for mentioning this! I was browsing through parts of this thread, and this comment allowed me to fix APM on my system. It had stopped working when I upgraded to a 2.4 series kernel but adding 'apm' to the loaded modules allows the machine to power down again. -D