On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:04:37AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: | 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:
Good so far.
| apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
| apm: disabled on user request.
| ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018]
| ACPI: Subsystem enabled
Looks good. (well, I don't know about the date)
| 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.
| 'man acpid' just tells me that acpid will open /proc/acpi/event, but it
| doesn't tell me how to create that file.
You don't create files in /proc. They are created automatically by
the kernel when you try and read them (they don't really exist).
To get those files, you must configure acpi in the kernel correctly.
Now lets see if I can remember how I did that when I experimented with
acpi ...
You need to put lines like these in /etc/modules :
ospm_button
ospm_thermal
ospm_system
ospm_processor
When those modules load, they look for the corresponding support in
the BIOS, and will create the /proc/acpi/* files necessary for
accessing them.
HTH,
-D
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