Greetings. This rookie linux user has installed and configured a new Dell inspiron 8200 on SuSE Linux v8.1, works great, but it didn't add in APM support whereas v7.3 did automatically. I've been over the How-To and internal docs, and it told me to run "make menuconfig" to add in various levels of device support. I'm not new to compiling programs, but this is something I've never done before - kernal rebuilding? Is there something special that I need to watch for in doing this? I tried the command, but it tells me that no such command (make menuconfig) exists. What am I doing wrong, or have not added in the installation? When this is complete, I'll have a fully functional Inspiron 8200 using KMail, KNode for news, Netscape Communicator v4.78, etc. Thanks, -Jeff
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jeff lists wrote:
Greetings. This rookie linux user has installed and configured a new Dell inspiron 8200 on SuSE Linux v8.1, works great, but it didn't add in APM support whereas v7.3 did automatically. I've been over the How-To and --- snip --- watch for in doing this? I tried the command, but it tells me that no such command (make menuconfig) exists.
Do "make xconfig" and you get a spiffy GUI written in tcl. I guess menuconfig got decommitted since "everybody" builds the kernel on a machine with X-windows. For laptops, ACPI isn't ready for prime time, lacking support for "suspend". I just upgraded an Inspiron 4100 and one of the first things I did was to rebuild the kernel, adding support for APM and removing ACPI. Remember to use yast2 - system - runlevel editor to turn on apmd and turn off acpid. I have a ATI Radeon graphics chip, and the XFree86 4.0 driver has no problems with suspend-resume. If I remember right, the SuSE hacked kernel sources do not include the official .config file; however, there's a copy in /boot/vmlinuz.config. Copy that to /usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/.config and that will be your starting point for the configuration. There's a lot of stuff you can toss (RAID, LVM, non-ATAPI CDROM, etc.) but use some judgment on this. If you know you don't have it on your laptop, throw it out. If you're not sure, keep it. Check out CONFIG_I8K, I think on the processor type page. This is the diagnostic module for the Inspiron 8000, but it works on most or all Inspirons. You can get the CPU temperature and the battery and fan status. See the accompanying help writeup for the user-space software. Also see http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k That software http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp4100/index.html Setting up Inspiron http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp4100/multigraph-1.1.tgz Strip chart for temperature etc.
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On Wednesday 23 October 2002 00.08, Jim Carter wrote:
For laptops, ACPI isn't ready for prime time, lacking support for "suspend". I just upgraded an Inspiron 4100 and one of the first things I did was to rebuild the kernel, adding support for APM and removing ACPI.
There's no need to recompile the kernel. APM is included in the default kernel. Just add "acpi=off apm=on" to the kernel parameters.
Remember to use yast2 - system - runlevel editor to turn on apmd and turn off acpid. I have a ATI Radeon graphics chip, and the XFree86 4.0 driver has no problems with suspend-resume.
If I remember right, the SuSE hacked kernel sources do not include the official .config file;
What's an official .config file? The SuSE way is to run "make cloneconfig" in the root of the source tree. That will generate a config file that matches the running kernel from the configuration data in /proc/config.gz Anders
--- Anders Johansson
There's no need to recompile the kernel. APM is included in the default kernel. Just add "acpi=off apm=on" to the kernel parameters.
Anders! Thank you! (I'm not the one who began this thread by the way.) I had just written to the list about 1 week ago (http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/2254.html) with problems beginning with no APM "built" into the kernel, and then with ACPI not being fully support on my 1999 laptop. Your simple tip (i.e., boot parameters) was exactly what my system needed. The error I was getting was deceptive - "Starting apmd not supported by kernel..". That makes me think of nothing but "must recompile kernel", and I'm not quite at that stage yet. So your tip saved/made my day! Thanks again Eric Pierce __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
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