Thanks for the help. You were right - it uses ACPI and not APM. I'll have to read up on how that is different and how to get it working, but at least I know why APM doesn't work.
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 08:11, Scott Harney wrote: > surprisingly I can find no 'net references on this laptop. Check > your BIOS for APM or ACPI settings (and that will tell you which your > laptop uses. One thing you might one to try is to burn or borrow a > knoppix CD and load it. By doing that and testing the APM from Knoppix > you may find that APM works with that distro which at least tells you > it's a distro-specific thing. > > Also, what video card is in that laptop? I have a dell inspiron 8200 > and I need to patch the Nvidia drivers and make a change to my X config > to get it to play nice with APM.
