Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

Romano Giannetti
2005-02-16T15:41:26Z

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:41:59PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:14:12PM +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote:

> > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4124
>
> Strange indeed.
>
> First thing to test is to disable sonypi (either rebuild a kernel
> without it or rename the module so it will not get loaded again),
> then reboot and see if you still have problems.
>

I have it compiled in, but it is not loaded: on a freshly booted kernel,
dmesg | grep sonypi results in nothing, and if I try to load it manually:

# modprobe sonypi
FATAL: Error inserting sonypi (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc1/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.ko): No such device

and in syslog:

sonypi: request_region failed

which is correct, because this laptop doesn't have a sonypi devive, it is
a PCG-FX701. I will nuke the module and try to reboot, but I do not think it
will make any difference.

> If you do, the problem is ACPI/input related.
>
> If you don't, the strangeness comes from some interraction with
> sonypi.

It's happened between 2.6.7 and 2.6.9; the only differences I can see in the
.config are the following:

+CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
+CONFIG_SERIO_RAW=m

... but I do not think they could make any difference. I will compile a
2.6.11-rc4 and try, but...

Anyway, I have put the dsdt from cat /proc/acpi/dsdt in

http://www.dea.icai.upco.es/romano/linux/mydsdt.bin

Thank you for the help.

Romano

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