[ACPI-sppt] ACPI not writing to /proc/acpi/event

I have ACPI built into the kernel but I can't see any messages in event when I 
cat it.  I played around with a couple of different kernels and got it to 
work for a little bit.  When it was working I could only press the power 
button once and it would receive that one event.  When I pressed it again 
nothing was sent.  It would not receive an event until I powered down and 
back up.  In my attempt to get it working 100% of the time I seemed to have 
broken it further.  I can't even get it to receive the first message now.  I 
tried nearly every combo of kernel .config but can't get it back the way it 
once was.   I didn't save the .config file of the almost working kernel but 
I'm sure in my nearly 30 different kernel builds and BIOS configs I've came 
across the same kernel config which leads me to believe its buggy.  (Guess 
thats why I had to select allow experamental code to get the ACPI section)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get this working?  


System:  Redhat 8.0 base w/ Gentoo hardened 2.4.21 kernel.
Motherboard: Tyan S2721-533 V1.01



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