Greetings,

Recently installed SuSE 9.1 on this laptop (tecra 8000), and everything's fine. Just one little problem: this laptop does not (to the best of my knowledge) support ACPI. APM should work fine (it did when I ran slackware), but SuSE loads ACPI by default. When I pass the parameters "apm=on" and "acpi=off" to the kernel at boot, APM seems to "work".
When I check the battery status with AC plugged in I get the following message: "AC on-line, no system battery". That last part is obviously wrong. Obviously tried google for an answer, but no luck so far.
When I unplug the AC adapter, the laptop immediately suspends. When I reconnect the AC adapter, and press the power button, the laptop wakes up again and everything is as it was before it suspended.
How do I make APM see the battery? And if I can't, how can I stop the laptop from suspending when I unplug the adapter?
"dmesg | grep APM" reveals no "loading APM" messages, so does the default kernel support APM?
Thanks in advance.

With kind regards,

JJ

OK, I tried the runlevel editor and activated the APM daemon, then rebooted only to find that there is no APM support in the kernel I'm using. So is there any way to enable APM support from within YAST? Or do I need to compile a new kernel?
Thanks,

JJ