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

I've never cared much more modules so I've been building it all into the 
kernel.  As for the monitoring I was just doing a 'cat /proc/acpi/events'.  
Thanks for the feedback can you think of anything else I might try.

On Monday 22 September 2003 10:20 pm, Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> make sure you build the stuff into the kernel.  if you make the stuff
> modules, make sure you load the modules before you try to use ACPI
> stuff.
>
> as for the one time events, make sure you are monitoring it correctly.
> I had that problem but it was because of my monitoring script I created.
>
> CL
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:52, Brett Blackham wrote:
> > 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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