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

No I havn't done anything with DSDT patch.  I read a little bit about it.  I 
stoped reading after step 3 of: 
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/HowToOverrideTable

I could only find one dsdt table in the acpi.sf.net database and it was for a 
different board. 

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 1:19 pm, Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> I would then suggest you build the kernel with debug on.  If that does
> not work, as you have suggested, then you probably need to fix your
> DSDT.  Are you using a DSDT/applied the DSDT patch??
>
>
>
> CL
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:37, Brett Blackham wrote:
> > Okay, I havn't been 100% open with you.  I do have acpid 1.0.2 installed.
> >  I have it start up in the rc3.d.  I would first tail -f /var/log/acpid
> > and /var/log/messages then press the power button.  Then I would shutdown
> > acpid and then cat /proc/acpi/events.  (I couldn't cat it when acpid was
> > running). I also had acpid configured with the event/default calling a
> > sciprt that would just log what it recived like so: $1 >> /tmp/1.log and
> > $2 >> /2.log. Thus I feel its safe to say ACPI is not sending any
> > messages.
> >
> > In my many kernel builds I did some with debug and some without.  Result
> > was the same.  I wouldn't recive any /var/log/messages or /var/log/acpid
> > events and my /tmp/2.log and 1.log files would be empty.
> >
> > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:29 am, Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> > > you are not running acpid are you? if not try installing that and
> > > seeing what it says.
> > >
> > > Didi you build your kernel with ACPI debugging enabled?  If not,
> > > rebuild with ACPI enabled so you can see the events in the log.
> > >
> > >
> > > CL
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:18, Brett Blackham wrote:
> > > > 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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