In message <20031213185538.GA15844@cyclonus>, Christian Biere writes:
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>Yasir Malik wrote:
>> Excuse me for my lack of knowledge, but do I have to recompile my kernel
>> to use APM?
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>Yes.
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>> When I do recompile my kernel, will there be file to set the
>> configuration options mentioned in apm(4)?
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>Those are kernel configuration options which means they can only be
>set during compile-time. You put those into the kernel configuration
>file. Look into GENERIC, most options should already be in there.
>Don't modify it though, copy it to something else modify the copy=20
>for your purposes and use it for compiling your kernel.

GENERIC_LAPTOP is a better starting point in this case, I suspect.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb