On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:39:23AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| i have this dell latitude C610, which runs perfectly fine with
| debian's stock kernel 2.2.20. however, i need some features from 2.4.x
| and thus went ahead to install kernel-image-2.4.17-686, which also
| boots just fine, but which freezes the computer everytime anything
| APM is done.
|
| this is the module list of the stock kernel after boot:
[...]
| which looks just fine. there is no apm support in the kernel, acpi is
| also off. whenever i shut the lid, try to suspend to ram or disk,
| enter dell's bios setup (Fn-F1), or let it sit long enough for the
| screen to blank, the system will freeze entirely. this seems to be
| a 2.4.x feature, 2.2.x worked fine. could someone maybe just tell me
| how i can make this work properly?
What happens if you try modprobe-ing 'apm' right after boot?
Do you have apm=on in the kernel commandline? If so, try removing it.
HTH,
-D
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