How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

[northy]

Hi everyone! 

I am currently trying to get the "Message LED" flashing on my Asus PC-DL mainboard. 
The LED flashed fine during POST and the Asus manual states, that an OS with ACPI support is needed to take control of the LED. 

I want to create a script that checks for certain system event's (temperature, fan failure, etc.) , and if any of them returns with the value "true", the LED should flash. 

In order to get this up and running, I downloaded ACPI4Asus-0.41 (I'm running kernel 2.6.20, Fedora Core 6), which compiles fine. 
However, when I run "modprobe asus_acpi", there is no entry in the "dmesg" or "/var/log/messages". Running "lsmod" shows, that asus_acpi is loaded though. 
According to the ACPI4Asus-README, there should be a folder called /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/. This one does not exist at all. 

I also tried installing "acpitool", and running "acpitool -m 1", however it just gave me the feedback that no Asus ACPI was loaded. 

Have any of you got some ideas on what could be wrong, or what else I could try to get the LED to flash? 

Thank you very much for any ideas/support.
I did try to mail my question to the acpi4asus list, but unfortunately that one does not exist any longer.

Regards, 
Sebastian  
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Re: How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

[Corentin CHARY]

Le Tuesday 08 May 2007 02:08:26 northy@arcor.de, vous avez écrit :
> Hi everyone!

> run "modprobe asus_acpi", there is no entry in the "dmesg" or
modprobe asus-laptop
asus_acpi is the old driver.

Can you send your dsdt ? 

Thanks


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Re: How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

[northy]

> Le Tuesday 08 May 2007 02:08:26 northy@arcor.de, vous avez écrit : 
> > Hi everyone! 
> 
> > run "modprobe asus_acpi", there is no entry in the "dmesg" or 
> modprobe asus-laptop 
> asus_acpi is the old driver. 

That is strange. I compiled acpi4asus-0.41, and this is the output when I try to modprobe asus-laptop: 
[root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# modprobe asus-laptop 
FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop (/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/acpi/asus-laptop.ko): No such device 

but modprobe asus_acpi seems to work fine (if you disregard the missing dmesg output) 

[root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# modprobe asus_acpi 
[root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# 


> Can you send your dsdt ? 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
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> CHARY 'Iksaif' Corentin 
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> 

sent to your e-mail address. 
Thanks for your help! 
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Re: How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

[Corentin CHARY]

> That is strange. I compiled acpi4asus-0.41, and this is the output when I
> try to modprobe asus-laptop: [root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# modprobe
> asus-laptop
> FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop
> (/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/acpi/asus-laptop.ko): No such device
# rmmod asus_acpi
# modprobe asus_laptop 
;)

and can you do that  ? :
# cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > /tmp/dsdt
and send me the dsdt ?

thanks


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Re: How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

[northy]

> That is strange. I compiled acpi4asus-0.41, and this is the output when I
> try to modprobe asus-laptop: [root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# modprobe
> asus-laptop
> FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop
> (/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/acpi/asus-laptop.ko): No such device
> # rmmod asus_acpi
> # modprobe asus_laptop 
> ;)

"rmmod asus_acpi" ran through fine, however I still can't load the asus_laptop/asus-laptop module.
[root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# modprobe asus-laptop
FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop
(/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/acpi/asus-laptop.ko): No such device
[root@shadow acpi4asus-0.41]# modprobe asus_laptop
FATAL: Error inserting asus_laptop
(/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/acpi/asus-laptop.ko): No such device
 
I tried recompiling the package, but that didn't change anything either :/
  
> and can you do that  ? :
> # cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > /tmp/dsdt
> and send me the dsdt ?
 
I've uploaded the file here:
http://home.arcor.de/northy/dsdt
 
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Regards, Sebastian

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Re: How to flash "Message LED" on Asus PC-DL via ACPI?

[Corentin CHARY]

Hum ... it's a motherboard not a laptop ...
So, you can't use asus_acpi/asus-laptop ..
Anyway, it's probably easy to make a driver to use this "Message LED", but 
without the motherboard on my desk, it will be hard ^^


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