modprobe apm

[Bill Christiansen]

I had a look at the system monitor and something was gobling up 40% to
80% of CPU cycles without any apps running. It seems I needed to make
sure acpi didn't try to load by adding a acpi=off to the boot loader,
now my CPU idles at about 5% and programs are loading zippy again :-).
I'm very impressed with Ubuntu so far.

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 01:21 -0400, David Mason wrote:
> check your BIOS for speedstep technology. If its on - turn it off. If
> its not in the BIOS google it, I seem to remember some workarounds for
> this a couple years ago... I just can't remember all the details :)
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:58:19 +1200, Bill Christiansen
> <bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > Thanks, Oliver also gave me the answer but I replied off list. I'm
> > trouble-shooting another problem now that is causing the performance to
> > drop so everything loads very slow. It's only on a P2 400MHz 128 MB
> > system but it was performing very well so I'm not sure what made it
> > suddenly slow down.
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 19:27 -0700, Ryan Troy wrote:
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > You should be able to add it into /etc/modules and have it load up on boot time...
> > >
> > > - Ryan
> > >
> > > --- Bill Christiansen <bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, I just installed Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite laptop. I need to
> > > > add a "modprobe apm" (It's an older laptop that doesn't use acpi) so
> > > > that my battery monitor and auto-power off on shut-down works. Where
> > > > would be the best place to put this.
> > > > Regards
> > > > Bill
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > > > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
> > > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users 
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > --
> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
> > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users 
> > 
> >
>