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

Micha Feigin <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:48:31 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.acpi.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am guessing that its a problem with you dsdt.
I had a problem with my ac events that where improperly set in the dsdt
table and didn't report at all.

On ג', 2003-09-23 at 02:52, 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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