From: Anders Karlsson Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 10:29:17 +0100

Morning,

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 10:22, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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Hi again,

Have now tried default kernel as well as kernel with multi-procssor support and when trying to activate apm ( either at boot or whilst up and running ) I still receive the error message "APMD not supported by kernel". Does anyone have any suggestions as that aptop is often suspended and resumed many times in a day and having to reboot woud be a PITA as well as being against the spirit of never rebooting ( My 8.0 install would remain live for months without a reboot ).

Out of curiosity - are you loading the apm.o module when your kernel is booted? If not - apmd doesn't have anything to talk to in the kernel and would probably give you the error described.

Just a thought.

Regards,

-- Anders Karlsson Trudheim Technology Limited

Answer is "I dont know" -- I simply went with the installation as it went -- that machine is at home at present - how would I check to see if apm.o is loading and if not how should I go about loading it automatically ( my ignorance shows here )? Thanks for the help F

From: Anders Karlsson Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 11:47:09 +0100

To see if apm.o is loaded, run /sbin/lsmod and look through the output. You should find "apm" in the list if it is loaded. As for loading it automatically, if /etc/init.d/apmd is run on boot, it should load the module for you. You might have to use YaST to change the runlevels to start it. I'd stick it in runlevels 2, 3 and 5.

I have APMD set to start in levels 2,3,5 - yet at boot the boot message says something along the lines of "Starting apmd -- not supported by kernel --- skipped" :-{ Shall keep trying Thanks for helping Regards F

From: Greg Macek Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 08:00:54 -0500

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 06:20, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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From: Anders Karlsson Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 11:47:09 +0100

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To see if apm.o is loaded, run /sbin/lsmod and look through the output. You should find "apm" in the list if it is loaded. As for loading it automatically, if /etc/init.d/apmd is run on boot, it should load the module for you. You might have to use YaST to change the runlevels to start it. I'd stick it in runlevels 2, 3 and 5.

I have APMD set to start in levels 2,3,5 - yet at boot the boot message says something along the lines of

"Starting apmd -- not supported by kernel --- skipped"

:-{

Have you tried turning off ACPI support in the kernel? That's what's held my machine from having proper support for some power management stuff. At boot you can pass this is as a kernel parameter "acpi=off" via Grub or lilo. To do this everytime edit /boot/grub/menu.1st or /etc/lilo.conf and add to the line loading Linux accordingly.

It seems that the system cannot find the apm module on boot up ( rpm -q apmd confirms that apm is installed as does YAST ) but the module itself seems to be missing !! Any suggestions anyone? TIA F

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 07:44, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

From: Greg Macek Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 08:00:54 -0500

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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 06:20, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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From: Anders Karlsson Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 11:47:09 +0100

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To see if apm.o is loaded, run /sbin/lsmod and look through the output. You should find "apm" in the list if it is loaded. As for loading it automatically, if /etc/init.d/apmd is run on boot, it should load the module for you. You might have to use YaST to change the runlevels to start it. I'd stick it in runlevels 2, 3 and 5.

I have APMD set to start in levels 2,3,5 - yet at boot the boot message says something along the lines of

"Starting apmd -- not supported by kernel --- skipped"

:-{

Have you tried turning off ACPI support in the kernel? That's what's held my machine from having proper support for some power management stuff. At boot you can pass this is as a kernel parameter "acpi=off" via Grub or lilo. To do this everytime edit /boot/grub/menu.1st or /etc/lilo.conf and add to the line loading Linux accordingly.

It seems that the system cannot find the apm module on boot up ( rpm -q apmd confirms that apm is installed as does YAST ) but the module itself seems to be missing !!

Any suggestions anyone?

TIA

F

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It cannot find the apm module because it does not exist. The kernel is compiled with apm, apm is not set as a module. I have a Compaq 1720US laptop and cannot get apm or acpi to work either. boot.msg shows that it cannot find apm in the bios and if I try to use acpi the system locks hard at boot every time. Funny thing is that apm worked with SuSE 7.3. Ken Schneider

From: Ken Schneider Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 25 Apr 2003 07:47:50 -0400

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 07:44, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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From: Greg Macek Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 08:00:54 -0500

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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 06:20, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:

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From: Anders Karlsson Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.2 and APM ( again ) Date: 24 Apr 2003 11:47:09 +0100

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To see if apm.o is loaded, run /sbin/lsmod and look through the output. You should find "apm" in the list if it is loaded. As for loading it automatically, if /etc/init.d/apmd is run on boot, it should load the module for you. You might have to use YaST to change the runlevels to start it. I'd stick it in runlevels 2, 3 and 5.

I have APMD set to start in levels 2,3,5 - yet at boot the boot message says something along the lines of

"Starting apmd -- not supported by kernel --- skipped"

:-{

Have you tried turning off ACPI support in the kernel? That's what's held my machine from having proper support for some power management stuff. At boot you can pass this is as a kernel parameter "acpi=off" via Grub or lilo. To do this everytime edit /boot/grub/menu.1st or /etc/lilo.conf and add to the line loading Linux accordingly.

It seems that the system cannot find the apm module on boot up ( rpm -q apmd confirms that apm is installed as does YAST ) but the module itself seems to be missing !!

Any suggestions anyone?

TIA

F

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It cannot find the apm module because it does not exist. The kernel is compiled with apm, apm is not set as a module.

I have a Compaq 1720US laptop and cannot get apm or acpi to work either. boot.msg shows that it cannot find apm in the bios and if I try to use acpi the system locks hard at boot every time. Funny thing is that apm worked with SuSE 7.3.

Ken Schneider

Stll the saga continues -- with ACPI disabled I am still unable to get power management. Boot message says cannot find the module for APM ( whether it be built in to the kernel or not that is the error message ). Interestingly, now that have had the machine running for a few days I find quite frequently that the cooling fan will start up for no apparent reason when the machine is just sitting doing nothing ( and not connected to a network ) -- I assume that this is part of the same problem. Regards F

On the same subject ... I don't have any apm module either but apmd deamon is running like this: root 3 1 0 Apr26 ? 00:00:00 [kapmd] root 775 1 0 Apr26 ? 00:00:06 /usr/sbin/apmd -w 10 -v -P /usr/sbin/apmd_proxy What is kapmd for? I'd have one more question. I modified /etc/sysconfig/powermanagement the way eth0 & eth1 should be restarted upon suspend/resume. It worked for a while but now whenever I wake up my laptop I always have the old IP ... at home I still have my office IP and in office I have my home one, so I have to do ifdown eth0 & ifup eth0. This fixes the IP issue but I have to ifdown eth1 (wireless) before I ifup eth0 as otherwise I don't get default gateway installed at all. This is really annoying. Does anybody knows any trick to get around this? Thx, Martin --- Michael Sacco wrote:

Can you at least load the battery module? Type at a command prompt "modprobe ac && modprobe battery". Or better yet, add them to your /etc/init.d/boot.local file, so they load at boot time. Then check your power management. This was all I needed to do for my laptop.

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Stll the saga continues -- with ACPI disabled I am still unable to get power management. Boot message says cannot find the module for APM ( whether it be built in to the kernel or not that is the error message ). Interestingly, now that have had the machine running for a few days I find quite frequently that the cooling fan will start up for no apparent reason when the machine is just sitting doing nothing ( and not connected to a network ) -- I assume that this is part of the same problem.

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