D. D. Brierton wrote: > The current kernels default to acpi instead of apm for power management. > I *believe*, although I'm not sure, that if you stop the acpid service > and start the apmd service then you can use apm for power management. And use noacpi on the kernel command line (assuming that the computer has ACPI). James. -- James Wilkinson | "I would like to apologise to the relatives of the fan Exeter Devon UK | who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester. E-mail address: james | I'm a little twitchy towards the end of a day of @westexe.demon.co.uk | signing and did not mean to kill and eat him." | -- Terry Pratchett.