In case your BIOS does not contain this option, another possibility consists of telling the kernel to switch apm off during the system boot.
This can be achieved by passing this parameter to the kernel:apm=offThis parameter can also be permanently passed to the kernel through
LILO
.
This can be done by starting YaST2 Control Center and selecting the menu
System --> Configure boot mode.
Select where LILO should be installed and insert the option
apm=off in the text
field for Boot parameter (separated from existing entries with a space). Confirm this configuration
with Continue and reboot to activate the changes.
Alternatively, you can also use YaST (1) in older SuSE Linux systems.
Start YaST (1) and select the menu
System Administration -->
Kernel and boot configuration -->
LILO configuration.
There you will find the line Append line for hardware parameter
, which may
already contain some parameters. Insert the option apm=off
separated by a
space from already existing parameters and confirm with Continue
.
The output of LILO
will be then displayed in a separate window.
You can now exit YaST
and reboot your computer.
We would like to thank Gerald Rosemann for his contribution to this article.