Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop Built the kernel with apm support. emerged apmd package. Power Management is turned on in the system bios. When I restart the system and try to start apcd - I get the message - "No APM supported in the kernel. Cannot get it to work under any circumstances so far.
Which kernel? We don't patch APM so we probably need to wait until this is fixed in the mainline kernel.
The kernel version installed is 2.4.18
Did you: `modprobe apm` by any chance?
I have a Inspiron 8100 laptop. Possibly check for a delllaptop option in the kernel config.
Not sure how this can be a gentoo bug. Perhaps it should be removed....
Is this still a problem? If not, I'll close it out.
I own a Dell Inspiron 5000 series laptop and a couple of things are pretty important to get APM to work for non-8000/8100 Dell laptops. Dell Laptop support in the kernel is only for 8000s and 8100s. Enabling it won't work on other laptops. Also you can't enable any APCI support in the kernel. You might notice that if you have it then it'll report "Error: Broken Dell BIOS found." and that will kill APM support. I also had occational problems with APM support just suddently not appearing on a boot when it was compiled into the kernel so now I just have APM as a module that I load via /etc/modules.autoload. And all the suboptions under APM don't need to be enabled. I'm assuming the same holds true for the 4000 since it is the same system as the 5000. It just contains an updated MoBo with AGP 4x and upgraded HD and case.
hi there... kernel 2.4.19-r7 here, on a dell inspiron 7500. can't get apm or dell-support in the kernel working, when i compile apm as a module and do a insmod, i get the following errors: Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved symbol default_idle /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved symbol machine_real_restart what's going on?
Maybe this helps: There are some laptops out that don't support any apm (for example mine). So you should just use acpi. Get the 2.4.20-pre4-kernel and the acpi-patch from www.sf.net/projects/acpi Compile it with acpi-support but with no apm-support. This might help solving it.
Why recommend using an unstable kernel release? The Gentoo kernels have ACPI in them. Use one of those.
[following infomration was obtained via google.com] conclusion: if APM doesnt work, use ACPI ... ACPI is a newer interface anyways and has a lot more features than APM ... closing the bug ... dell inspiron 5000: http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/pblan/overview.htm Microsoft
[following infomration was obtained via google.com] conclusion: if APM doesnt work, use ACPI ... ACPI is a newer interface anyways and has a lot more features than APM ... closing the bug ... dell inspiron 5000: http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/pblan/overview.htm Microsoft® Windows® 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) automatically installs in Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) mode, without any setup switches. dell inspiron 4000: http://www.cynox.ch/asuzuki/inspiron4000.htm APM/Power management I compiled my 2.4.4 kernel with APM support included, and added the apm=on append parameter in /etc/lilo.conf, but somehow the Inspiron 4000 didn't manage to power-off on shutdown. I then used ACPI instead, installed acpid (apt-get install acpid), and the shutdown now works.
