On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 13:27, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:01, Quel Qun wrote: > > > Two different machines: > > > > 1. A Dell dimension with a TNT2. The machine boots but crashes as > > above when I try to start X. Booting with the pci=noacpi option, > > the machine runs fine. > > > > 2. An ASUS-7N266 with Athlon 1700, embedded GeForce2, the machine > > does not even start booting unless acpi=off is passed on the > > command line. > > > > It looks like the whole acpi thing is quite flaky. Why are the > > files in /proc/acpi when all the doc show them in /proc/sys/acpi? > > Docs are outdated, I believe this was quite a recent change and most of > the docs I can find are quite old. I agree ACPI seems flaky, but then, > this is the development tree! If we want ACPI to be in and solid, it has > to start off by being in and flaky =) > That's right. No complains here.
> > acpid looks for the rules in /etc/acpi/events and fails to start > > because this folder does not exist. Where is acpictl? > > acpid starts OK for me. > Are you sure? No error in /var/log/messages? Do you have any rule set in /etc/acpi/events? How are these rules generated? Also, why can't I cat /proc/acpi/events? Is it because of the pci=noacpi? =o= kk1
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