sound on the laptop

[Jason Clinton]

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Richard A. Franklin wrote:

| Jason: You conjured sounds on my Tecra 8100, and now I would like to
| recreate that change, and save the changes. Sound is a good thing!
| So I will be looking for your post for that procedure.

At a console:

$ su -
Password:
# mount /boot
# cd /boot/grub
# nano -w menu.lst

Go to the very long line that begins with something like 'vmlinuz' and
add " noapm apm=off" to the end of it. Hit CTRL-O, Enter, CTRL-X.

Reboot.

That should do it. This process is different from what I did last night
because this is permanent; what I did last night was just tweak the
settings as the computer was booting.

What we are doing: The kernel is not the first thing that loads when
your computer starts; the bootloader is. We are telling the bootloader
(Grub) to tell the kernel (vmlinuz) that we do not want APM to come on.
Also, command line options for the kernel that the kernel doesn't
understand get passed to init (the third thing the starts after power
on). Init may decide (or not) to do special things based on the commands
it receives. In this case, it may decide not to start 'apmd' based on
the the command line options. apmd is the 'user space' daemon
responsible for communicating with the APM BIOS through the kernel's
interfaces.

| Thanks! Will be looking for your Communiversity class when the next
| schedule is released.

Looking forward, as well.

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