Guest neillans Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Hi, I've just installed mdk 9 on my laptop (first time I've installed linux on it out of a VMWare session...). After a day searching the net to get all the little bits and peices working (mainly the NetGear wireless adapter!), its all working brilliantly, apart from the Power Management. I cant get any readings at all from the APM system, so I have no battery level etc... Also, when I issue the poweroff command mdk doesn't switch the laptop off - is this linked with APM. How can I fix this??? Many thanks!! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Sorry, for the silly question, but are the apm pkgs installed? urpmi apm The following packages contain apm: apmd apmd-devel apm-scripts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neillans Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Yep, APM packages are installed Trying to run apm and apmd give me an error: "No APM support in kernel" I have tried recompiling the standard Mandrake kernel to enable APM, to no joy :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Apm was enabled in the default kernel. Acpi was not. Was one of the options for apm not enable for your sys? What about bio settings? Is apmd running? service -s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neillans Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Well, APM was disabled in my kernel - which really confused me - I thought it was enabled by default too (is on my mdk8.2 machine). Power Management is enabled in the BIOS. I have just finished recompiling the kernel with ACPI on, and all appears well! I have battery status and correct poweroff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neillans Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Only problem is... i have now lost the smart booting backdrop that appears with the standard linux kernel. How can I get this back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Here's the defaut .config I had CONFIG_PM=y# CONFIG_ACPI is not set CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set Only problem is... i have now lost the smart booting backdrop that appears with the standard linux kernel Do you mean all the text output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Did you do make install, or did you copy everything yourself? ...e.g. System.nap, .config., vmlinuz, and make an initrd-x.x.x.img What does your bootloaders config look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neillans Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Only problem is... i have now lost the smart booting backdrop that appears with the standard linux kernel Do you mean all the text output? Well, normally there is a blue / grey image backdrop, with Mandrake Linux along the top and the boot text (service startup ok / failed) appears roughly in the center of it all in another box, with a progress bar along the bottom of the screen. Doesn't bother me, but keeps my collegues in the office happiler ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 Oh, sorry, I dk anything about the bootsplash stuff. I don't instal or use it, I like the text output. I do recall another user losing their's when they switched to a smp, or enterprise kernel or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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