On 13-Dec-2001 Michael Hothorn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I switched from potato to woody on my thinkpad i1200. APM support worked > for t 2.2.19 very well. Installing 2.4.16 with the same options > > <*> Advanced Power Management BIOS support > [ ] Ignore USER SUSPEND > [*] Enable PM at boot time > [ ] Make CPU Idle calls when idle > [ ] Enable console blanking using APM > [*] RTC stores time in GMT > [*] Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls > [*] Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off > > After booting the new kernel, apm says: Kernel build with no APM > support. /proc/apm does not exist! > > append= apm=on in /etc/lilo.conf does not change anything >
I hate to ask this, but are you booting the right kernel? Any chance you are booting Debian's by mistake?

