[wplug] IBM Thinkpad APM/ACPI: what to do next?

Brandon Kuczenski brandon at 301south.net
Wed Sep 8 20:39:25 EDT 2004


On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:

> > The specific model works flawlessly with APM, if you're willing to
> > forego suspend-to-disk (which is flaky at best) for the much
> > better-faster-easier suspend-to-RAM.
> >
> > So, just disable ACPI completely, install a kernel that supports APM,
> > and apt-get install apmd.
> >
>
> Okay -- yes.  This seems like the right thing to do.
>
> All my ACPI support is modularized -- is it possible to disable it without
> recompiling the kernel?  Somebody told me I should be able to put
> "acpi=off" into my bootloader (which is grub) but I couldn't seem to get
> that to work anywhere.

hmm, let's see here...
kernel blah blah blah... um... --acpi=off
...
boot
<boot><boot>

<login>

<su ->
/etc/init.d/apmd start
apmd is already running...

fn-F4

<tearful...> oh my god!  It's sleeping!

Hooray!  It's a laptop again!

Your next challenge is in the next post.

-Brandon




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