modprobe apm

[Bill Christiansen]

My last diagnosis was faulty as the problem intermittent and came back,
so I'll have to keep looking. Bios is pre-speedstep technology.

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:11 +1200, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
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