Many questions: 1) did it ever work before? If not are you certain your laptop model uses APM and not the newer (and incomplete in the Linux kernel) ACPI for these functions 2) if it did work, have you done any upgrades recently? particularly kernel and kernel modules 3) is APM compiled in the kernel you're running or built in as a module use "/usr/sbin/lsmod | grep apm" to see if there's an apm module present. Try (as root) "modprobe -v apm" to manually attempt to load the=20 module if it's not there. Of course it might be in the kernel itself use "dmesg | grep apm" to help determine that. My output looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scotth # dmesg | grep apm apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] 4) Logs are your friend. check for apm messages in /var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages, and possibly /var/log/kern.log. Redhat's logging may=20 be more extensive than that so you may have to dig around in /var/log use "grep -i apm /var/log/* | less" to find potential entries. every tim= e=20 you have attempted to manually start apmd may have generated some more informative logging information that "[FAILED]" On Wednesday 04 December 2002 03:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an HP Pavilion zt1260 running RedHat 8.0 with kernel-2.4.18-18.8= =2E0 > and apmd-3.0.2-12. Whenever APM attempts to start, it fails. I cannot > find much information about the problem, but here is what I do have: > > # service apmd start > Starting up APM daemon: [FAILED] > > # /etc/rc.d/init.d/apmd start > Starting up APM daemon: [FAILED] > > # apmd > Segmentation fault > > # cat /proc/apm > Segmentation fault > > # apm > Segmentation fault > > # apm --suspend > Segmentation fault > > # apm --standby > Segmentation fault > > If anyone could help me in any way with this problem, I would appreciat= e > it. Thanks > > =09Matt Eastman > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --=20 Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The only thing I need to know about NT is "fdisk"
