ACPI

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

Hi, all:

Apologies for the length of this, but I thought to err on the side of
detail.

My Toshiba Portege 3020CT has an ACPI BIOS (v. 8.10, just recently
upgraded).

After installing acpid, I enabled ACPI support in the kernel, but when I
booted, I got this:

apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
ACPI: APM is already active, exiting

So, I disabled APM (by appending "apm=off" in lilo.conf), and, on
rebooting, got this:

apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: disabled on user request.
ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018]
ACPI: Subsystem enabled

(The 20011018 looks pretty old - is there a more recent .deb?)

The installation of acpid (from the .deb, of course!) appeared to be fine,
in that most of the appropriate directories and files were created
(/etc/acpi, /etc/acpi/events, /etc/init.d/acpid) but acpid doesn't start
on boot, and when I try to start it manually, it reports:

acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: No such file or directory

And, sure enough, that file doesn't exist.

I then made the interesting (!) mistake of trying to run acpid with the
only file in the /etc/acpid/events subdirectory:

acpid -e /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn

and my machine promptly shut down :)  (Suggesting that acpid is in fact
working?  Or not - the logfile suggests that it just ran the powerbtn
script.  And actually what it did was shut down to the point of telling me
to "Power down" which, if that's what it's going to do, won't be as useful
as I'd hoped.  That may depend on a BIOS setting, I think.)

'man acpid' just tells me that acpid will open /proc/acpi/event, but it
doesn't tell me how to create that file.

I'm sure I've missed something obvious and will feel really dumb when it's
pointed out to me!  Any thoughts?

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Wiseman
pwiseman@mindspring.com
Linux user #17943


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