This is the content of dmesg in /var/log: Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ef70000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000ef70000 - 000000000ef7b000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000ef7b000 - 000000000ef7d000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000000ef80000 - 000000000f000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000001ef80000 - 000000001f000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 239MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 On node 0 totalpages: 61296 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 57200 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls. ACPI: RSDP (v002 IBM ) @ 0x000f6d90 ACPI: XSDT (v001 IBM TP-1S 0x00001180 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0ef74a3b ACPI: FADT (v003 IBM TP-1S 0x00001180 IBM 0x00000001) @ 0x0ef74b00 ACPI: SSDT (v001 IBM TP-1S 0x00001180 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0ef74cb4 ACPI: ECDT (v001 IBM TP-1S 0x00001180 IBM 0x00000001) @ 0x0ef7ae89 ACPI: BOOT (v001 IBM TP-1S 0x00001180 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0ef7afd8 ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM TP-1S 0x00001180 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1993.715 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 3971.48 BogoMIPS Memory: 238512k/245184k available (1503k kernel code, 6284k reserved, 1110k data, 136k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz stepping 09 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd84c, last bus=4 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS not found. Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0 Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of lspci -vv, this message (10b9,5457,1014,0535) and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board to serial-pci-info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx register_serial(): autoconfig failed Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.0 ALI15X3: chipset revision 196 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8080-0x8087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8088-0x808f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MHT2030AT, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: DW-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 52549429 sectors (26905 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3475/240/63, UDMA(100) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > ide: late registration of driver. md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 159k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Journalled Block Device driver loaded EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: ide0(3,8): orphan cleanup on readonly fs ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 548425 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 741920 EXT3-fs: ide0(3,8): 2 orphan inodes deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:02.0 usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcf858000, IRQ 11 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,8), internal journal Adding Swap: 559400k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: TEAC Model: DW-224E Rev: B.2A Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 --- Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It means you probably booted with ACPI support, or > your laptop doesn't actually have an APM bios. > > What's your /var/log/dmesg look like? > > Bill __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/