Re: tlug: Sony VAIO & apm

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Frank> I have TL-j 2.0 installed on a Sony VAIO with an APM
>     Frank> kernel.  Everything has been working well enough, except
>     Frank> that the machine has not wanted to hibernate to disk.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why its not working, but if you don't mind recompiling
> the kernel, you could try modifying drivers/char/apm_bios.c to define
> APM_DEBUG. By default, it is:
> 

In order to hibernate to disk you need to have a special partition set
aside for that.  If you nuked it when installing Linux, I don't think it
will hibernate to disk.

The APM_DEBUG might help, though.  TL's kernel source package is set up so
that you can go into /usr/src/linux and run 'make dep;make clean;make
zImage' and it will build a default TL kernel - so... you'll have to run
make menuconfig there and turn on APM, then turn on APM debugging in
whatever .h file it's defined in, and then 'make dep;make clean; make
zImage'.  You shouldn't have to remake the modules or modules_install,
however.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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