Question #2 in my mission to migrate from XP to FC3:

The battery in my Thinkpad 600E is shot. It won't take more than about a 20% charge. I'll get a new one some day.

My laptop predates ACPI. It does have APM, though, and the dag blasted stupid pain in the kiester APM BIOS keeps reporting to linux that the battery is nearly dead and linux won't leave me alone about it, even if I am plugged into a wall outlet.

Windows keep getting a Kwrite window dropped in front of them with a warning from "root" that the APM BIOS is reporting a dead battery. If I'm in a terminal, its even worse. The stupid message appears right in the middle of what I am trying to type.

APM cannot be disabled in the BIOS on this machine. I have even checked the windows thinkpad utility that IBM supplies (it has a few BIOS settings in it that you can't actually access from anywhere else... weird).

Isn't there a way I can just shut down APM in linux and not have to worry about it?

TIA

In a terminal as root:

then

to prevent it from restarting upon subsequent boots.


EDIT: also, I lived in Lubbock till I was 15 is that anywhere near BFE?

Perfect. Thanks heaps.

BFE is just west of No Where In Particular. Its in South central TX, where it is hilly, but still green.