[prog] APM daemon

[Mary]

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003, S P wrote:
> I have installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on my computer. On boot up I get a
> message Starting up APM daemon..
> 
> And the system just hangs. Is there any way I can get into the system
> & disable starting of APMd during startup. Or is there a way to
> disable it while installing Linux ?

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Now, a possible answer:

You can normally disable APM by going into your BIOS setup. You access
your BIOS settings by doing whatever your computers tells you at startup
is the way to enter "Setup" (ie there's a message that comes up early in
startup that says something like "Press Delete to enter Setup" -- do
what it tells you).

You might have to do a bit of searching to find the APM (also known as
"Advanced Power Management") setting, but try setting it to "Off" or
"Disabled" or something.

Note that this means that when you shut down your computer from Linux
(or any other OS), it probably won't actually power down, and you'll
need to wait for Linux to shut down and then hit the power switch
yourself.

-Mary