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I have a slight problem with APM right now on my IBM ThinkPad T40. It always worked before when I used to compile my own Kernel. However, I decided to go with the Slackware kernel 2.6.8.1 from /Testing. After installng the Linux 2.6.8.1 packages APM stopped working.
I uncommented the proper line in /etc/rc.d/modules.rc and I also have both APMD and APCID packages installed. When Linux loads up or if I do 'modprobe apm' all I get is "FATAL: Module apm not found."
Is there a simple fix to this, or is there some way I can just compile the apm module and install it?
The latest linux version is "2.6.8.1" and I was indeed able to find apm.o in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/. I did however figure it out. I removed the slackware version of 2.6.8.1 and just did a customized kernel compile like I used to be doing. Everything is working fine now.
Intersting note is that ACPI was working fine in the Slackware built kernel of 2.6.8.1, but in my custom compile I don't compile ACPI, just APM. I also solved a sound problem where ALSA wasn't working by removing the Slackware packeges and just compiling from source.
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