On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:29:02PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:31:10PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > > > ACPI worked fine in test 1, but not in test2. Not sure why. When I > > > type service acpid [anything at all] I get no error messages and no > > > acknowledgement that it did anyghint. The logfile is empty. Also when > > > I just type acpid, it gives me the error message: > > > > > > acpid: /proc/acpi/event: no such file or directory > > > > > > According to the release notes, ACPI should work in this release. What > > > can I do to get it working? > > > > If you re-read the release notes, you'll notice that ACPI got disabled > > for this release, and you need to specify acpi=on > > Are you collecting dmidecode info so that it can be automagically enabled on > systems that need/might benefit from it or is it that acpi is just not ready > for prime time?? For systems that *need* it, adding DMI entries is the plan. For systems that work fine without it, leaving it to the user to enable is what has been decided iirc. Feel free to open a bugzilla report with the dmi info, and I'll get on it. (Reusing the same bugzilla # for multiple reports is also a good idea.) Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
