On Friday 25 October 2002 04:08, Eric Price wrote:
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
Hi Eric, the apmd demon it sees is used just to execute commands in response to actions. It's possible to make the computer shutdown itself instead of just dying when the batery is over. But for this to work, somebody must catch the Batery low message and issue apm -s This is apmd. I checked and I don't have it running either. I have something like [kapmd] but i don't know what it means. So, if you want to play, just let the battery drain itself and see if the computer dies or initiates a controled shutdown. Then, activate apmd, be sure to configure it, and let the battery drain again. It seems like you have to configure it in /etc/sysconfig/powermanagement Read also the man page: "man apmd" Cheers, Dan Laba.