APM

I have a thinkpad A21m notebook. It appears that I have only partial ACPI support and therefore all the power savings features as mentioned in KDE are disabled. I'm not sure how much ACPI support I really have, but I do have APM support based on previous installations on this computer and I have enough ACPI support for this to work under other Operating Systems. Admittedly I don't know how much power management is done through APM or ACPI under that other OS. But my question is fairly simple. I have added the package for apmd. But when I attemp any apm related functions, I get a message that apm is not supported in the kernel. Where is it?