On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Arthur Mueller wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> back to the original problem:
> - Laptop Acer TravelMate 630 latest model 1 week old
> - RedHat Linux 7.3
> - Kernel 2.4.20 from kernel.org
> - APM compiled; ACPI left out
> - laptop supporting ACPI
>
> Lon Lentz gave me advice to recompile the kernel without ACPI but with
> APM. I did so. Here are the first (disappointing) results:
>
> [A] general
> - typing # apm -v running the machine only with batteries causes the
> same fault output # AC on-line, no system battery
>
> [B] terminal mode (without X)
> - typing # apm -s (for suspend) forces the machine to go to sleep. Fan,
> hdd and everything's powered off. The sleep-led is activated. => That's
> right. But: the system does not wake up. => Shit!
> - typing # apm -S (for standby) switches off screen and hdd, but no fan
> and no cpu. => is it right? At least, the system wakes up ;-)
>
> [C] X11-mode (graphical with KDE 3.0)
> - typing # apm -s (for suspend) tries to send the machine to sleep, but
> if fails. The computer hangs up somewhere, screen is off and nothing
> works. Waking up impossible.
> - typing # apm -S (for standby) sends the machine to standby-mode with
> the same results as in terminal mode. Waking up is also possible, but
> after that, resizing windows, drag and drop as well as possibly other
> X-features are not working.
>
> => Big Questionmark ??? Is it the kernel, is it the laptop or is it me
> who is to stupid to set up apm right? Is it possible the hardware only
> understands ACPI but not APM, what reason ever? What to do?
Buggy BIOS?
Some issues can be dealt with by configuring ampd in /etc/sysconfig/apmd.
> Thanks,
> Arthur
Good luck...
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