Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Eric Pierce <eric_suse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Sacco answered: 
>I have a toshiba laptop too. with suse 8.0 it worked
>perfectly, with 8.1 no
>apm support. Reading the dmesg output, I got: APM
>disabled by ACPI...
>Hmm, so ACPI dares to interfere with my APM? Turn it
off! >I set ACPI=off, and
>now my toshiba laptop is APM enabled again. Simple,
just >try it at the next
>reboot;)

Dan Laba answered:
>Just do it! Try once with acpi=off (either in grub or
>just add it when you
>boot (you know, in the splash screen)). 
>I have a toshiba laptop too. with suse 8.0 it worked
>perfectly, with 8.1 no
>apm support. Reading the dmesg output, I got: APM
>disabled by ACPI...
>Hmm, so ACPI dares to interfere with my APM? Turn it
>off! I set ACPI=off, and
>now my toshiba laptop is APM enabled again. Simple,
>just try it at the next
>reboot;) 

I see I see.  I also read another APM post just before
yours.  They were suggesting "acpi=off" "apm=on" for
boot parameters.
That worked and then I read your reply above.  Thanks
a lot for writing.  I might remove the "apm=on" from
grub's menu.1st file to see if that works like you
said.  I'm just happy to have apm back.  I know it's
supposedly "old" school, but it does everything I
need: fan, suspend, screen lamp properly goes off per
bios request.

One last thing... Any advantages to having the apmd up
and running as a runlevel service?  It's not at the
moment and all my apm stuff is working fine.  Just
curious...

Take care.
Eric Pierce




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