Re: 2.2.12 kernel apm

[Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

    Joey> I just installed kernel 2.2.12 on my laptop, and was having
    Joey> some trouble getting apm working. it said "apm disabled on
    Joey> user request" at boot time.  Well, some grepping the kernel
    Joey> sources found that passing "apm=on" to the kernel at boot time
    Joey> enables it now. I can't find any record or docs of this
    Joey> change.

Oh!  So that's how it's done.  I was wondering.  I compiled apm into the
kernel, and for reasons, which I had no time to explore, I kept getting
"no apm in kernel" error messages from the various apm programs.

Thanks Joey!

    Joey> This strikes me as potentially a very good change. Wouldn't it
    Joey> mean we can build apm into our stock kernels now? It will be
    Joey> off by default, but laptop users can turn it own w/o too much
    Joey> bother.

Well, we definitely need to get the word out on how to turn it on.  This
is not obvious.

Brian