Thanks, everyone. Adding append="apm=on" to the lilo.conf file seems to have enabled apm, except for hibernation, which perhaps I messed up when I shrunk the Windows partition using fips to create the space for Debian. Any way to get hibernation back that anyone knows of?
Steve Stefano wrote: > > 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 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
