More easily you can add something like: append="apm=on" to the lilo.conf file
Bye, Stefano At 23.34 07/03/01 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:07:26AM -0500, steven k. thompson wrote: >> I installed Debian 2.2r2 on my laptop and as I boot I >> see the message "APM disabled at user request". I presume >> it would be better not to have it disable. Can someone >> tell me how this disabling happened and how I change it? >> > >The way I understand, some BIOS cannot handle apm, and therefore it is >switched off in the stock Debian kernels by default. You can turn it back >on by adding apm=on or something similar to the boot command line when you >boot. > >But a better thing to do is to recompile your kernel yourself, so you can >make sure it's generally optimised for your system. If you do this, you can >also turn apm to turn on at boot by default. > >Drew > >-- >PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt >Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************** Stefano Calza Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria Università degli Studi di Milano Via G. Venezian, 1 20133 Milano tel. +39 02/2361302, 02/70600908 fax 02/2362930

