ACPI Not Compiled into Kernel, Getting Rid of APM

Hi, some may have seen my effort in Gentoo-Users list to get
some ACPI
support for my Gentoo-running laptop working.  Here's the
situation,
any more info you want or need I will happily provide upon
request.

1) ACPID is installed.  Lemme double-check...  yeah, it is. 
However.
whenever I'm looking through /etc, I see all kinds of APMD
stuff,
which isn't installed.  Lemme check that too...  yeah,
it's not
installed.

Anyways, it looks to me like APMD is still effectively
installed on
the system, even though portage says it's not.  Is this
okay?  Nothing
should start melting or exploding if I just leave it there?

Also, my next problem:

2) KDE Control Centre tells me that ACPI support is *not*
built into
the kernel.  I tried enabling it, however, I'm not sure if
it actually
worked, or if I rebuilt and correctly installed/enabled the
newly
built kernel...  come to think of it, I don't even remember
if I
carried out the instructions to enable it...  I think I
might have
freaked out and just not carried it out fearing to make the
system
totally unbootable.

Anyways, here's my system and my warning about myself:

System: IBM X40 Type 2386-1CU
o Intel Ultra-Low Voltage Pentium M 1000MHz
o Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Chipset something or other...
o 256MB system RAM
o I also forked over some cash to get the X4 Ultra-base dock
and a
DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo

Myself:  I must know what I'm doing.  I'm fairly literate
in Linux:
I'm learning C++ and bash, and I've been using
Debian-based systems
for the past 5 months to build myself up to using Gentoo.  I
really
like Gentoo, and I hope to soon configure some desktop
computers in my
house to make a ultra-cool, ultra-low-budget distcc cluster
(yay!) 
I'm rather self-important, and if I start insulting people,
just
ignore me: I'm either off my medicine or have suffered a
victory in a
debate with a Libertarian (it galvanises me into a lot more
eloquent
and dramatic speech, rather than my normal dulcet tones ; )

Thanks for any help you can give - I look forward to having
the little
battery status monitor again!

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On Sunday 26 March 2006 15:29, "Lord Sauron"
<lordsauronthegreatgmail.com> 
wrote about '[gentoo-laptop] ACPI Not Compiled into Kernel,
Getting Rid of 
APM':
> 1) ACPID is installed.  Lemme double-check...  yeah, it
is.  However.
> whenever I'm looking through /etc, I see all kinds of
APMD stuff,
> which isn't installed.  Lemme check that too...  yeah,
it's not
> installed.

/etc is config-protected by default in gentoo, which means
(among other 
things) uninstalling will not remove files in there.  You
should be able 
to remove these files manually if you aren't using them.

> Anyways, it looks to me like APMD is still effectively
installed on
> the system, even though portage says it's not.  Is
this okay?  Nothing
> should start melting or exploding if I just leave it
there?

Probably.

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