[gentoo-laptop] ACPI Not Compiled into Kernel, Getting Rid of APM

[Lord Sauron]

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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