ACPI configuration or return to apmd
Hi, After installing 8.1 over 8.0 and getting YOU to cooperate here is the next issue. SuSE have introduced ACPI for power management. My 13 month old Dell Inspiron 4000 does not seem to respond to this. (It may be that Dell is not part of the ACPI consortium see http://www.acpi.info yet.) At present the battery not charging icon is displayed. KDE Control Center power management does not work any more. I have set the acpid daemon to run via YaST. There seems to be no GUI tool to configure or check the status of power management. The sysconfig options for ACPI are a mystery. The SuSE HOWTO for end users is well hidden, if it exists. The SuSE DB article seems to be saying how one can get rid of ACPI but it is brief and lacks a very specific example of what to do. So is there a user friendly solution ? If not how does one get rid of ACPI and reinstall APM ? -- John
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:24:36PM +0100, John Sved beat on the keyboard:
Hi,
After installing 8.1 over 8.0 and getting YOU to cooperate here is the next issue.
SuSE have introduced ACPI for power management. My 13 month old Dell Inspiron 4000 does not seem to respond to this. (It may be that Dell is not part of the ACPI consortium see http://www.acpi.info yet.)
At present the battery not charging icon is displayed.
KDE Control Center power management does not work any more.
I have set the acpid daemon to run via YaST.
There seems to be no GUI tool to configure or check the status of power management. The sysconfig options for ACPI are a mystery.
The SuSE HOWTO for end users is well hidden, if it exists. The SuSE DB article seems to be saying how one can get rid of ACPI but it is brief and lacks a very specific example of what to do.
So is there a user friendly solution ?
If not how does one get rid of ACPI and reinstall APM ?
-- John
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In /boot/grub/menu.1st add to the kernel line: acpi=off apm=on I too have a Dell laptop and that works for me. -- _ _ __ _____ _____ ___| |_ | '__| / __\ \ /\ / / _ \/ _ \ __| -o) | | _ \__ \\ V V / __/ __/ |_ /\\ |_|(_) |___/ \_/\_/ \___|\___|\__|_\_v rsweet@garagenetworks.net "unix soit qui mal y pense."
I still have lilo. I tried these parameters on the command prompt and it worked. Thanks Robert. Now to make it permanent. I have looked at the YaST bootloader configuration tool but before messing it up....what exactly to I need to edit ? I assume that the change has to go in at "section options". What exactly needs to be done ? -- John Robert Sweet wrote:
In /boot/grub/menu.1st add to the kernel line:
acpi=off apm=on
I too have a Dell laptop and that works for me.
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