Why doesn't noapm work?

["sean darcy" <seandarcy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running FC1 on an old desktop machine that keeps going to suspend every 
18.7 minutes. I'm assuming this is some sort of apmd problem, so I'm trying 
to disable apm. I've disabled apmd though ntsysv. I'm also trying to disable 
apm int the kernel itself. I've put noapm on the grub kernel line.  But it 
doesn't work.

Here are snips from /var/log/messages:

Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: 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 15:20:17 EST 2003
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 
000000000009fc00 (usable)
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 
0000000005000000 (usable)
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 
0000000100000000 (reserved)
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: 80MB LOWMEM available.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 20480
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: zone(1): 16384 pages.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: DMI not present.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ noapm 
vga=771
.............................
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Centaur MCR
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 
0xfd131, last bus=0
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer 
Society NET3.039
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Dec 18 20:51:07 localhost kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver 
version 1.16)    <<< huh???
Dec 18 20:51:08 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd
.............................................

any help appreciated

sean

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