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From: "Jörg Sonnenberger" <joerg.sonnenberger-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>
To: ACPI devel Mailinglist
	<acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Sebastian Henschel <s.henschel-TGKKaGbebvyzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208081146.26336.joerg.sonnenberger@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020807215528.GA646-adzhR0EPeY/7X6WiDY61Ug@public.gmane.org>

Am Mittwoch, 7. August 2002 23:55 schrieb Sebastian Henschel:
> hi folx...
>
> did anyone of you try to install the current acpi-patch to the current
> linux kernel 2.4.19?
>

Well, I tried against 2.4.19-ac1. The patch itself creates lots of rejects, 
some of them I couldn't solve directly. 

> i am very confused, since the structure of the files in linux/drivers/acpi
> seems to have changed enormously. on the other hand, acpi from the original
> kernel still seems to be quite old (output from dmesg):
>
> ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018]
> ACPI: Subsystem enabled

Yep, this version doesn't support my battery state, 2.5.25 does.

>
> well, and as you can see, acpi claims to be enabled. but there is no
> /proc/acpi to be found. even with the stock 2.4.18 a couple of months ago,
> i had at least something in there.
>

That's strange. It's working for me with both the plain 2.4.18 and 2.4.19-ac1. 
Any error message in dmesg? Perhaps the bios is some kind of broken or acpi 
is inactivated per command line?

> any insights?
>
> cheers,
>  sebastian
>
> p.s.: please cc: me or group-reply, i am not on the list, so far.

Jörg


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-08  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-07 21:55 acpi-patch + kernel 2.4.19 Sebastian Henschel
     [not found] ` <20020807215528.GA646-adzhR0EPeY/7X6WiDY61Ug@public.gmane.org>
2002-08-07 23:27   ` Andy Dustman
2002-08-08  9:46   ` Jörg Sonnenberger [this message]
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2002-08-13 19:34 Grover, Andrew

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