On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:22:44AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> However, I don't recall the failure mode if I don't have it -- it might
> just be that APM doesn't work,

The APM support is designed not to attach if ACPI is used.

> ... which doesn't matter for INSTALL kernels.

Correct. "apm0" is commented out in "INSTALL_LAPTOP" for exactly that reason.

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