acpi problems

satya linux satyalinux at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 3 14:36:44 UTC 2003


Thanks for your help.
I changed /etc/rc.sysinit like you said.  And it
removed the error, but didn't remove the problem. 
Like you predicted, it seems to be an XFree86config
problem. The only thing that works is disabling
graphical boot, which is fine for me.  Thanks for all
of your help!
~satya

--- Dan Goodes <fedora-list at planetmirror.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, satya linux wrote:
> 
> > I get two noticeable errors:
> >
> > 1)
> >
>
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptl/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.o:
> > init_module: No such device
> > insmod: hint: insmod errors can be caused by
> incorrect
> > modular parameters,
> > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> > You may find more information in syslog or the
> output
> > from dmesg
> 
> for what it's worth, I get this error as well, since
> I don't have a
> toshiba laptop, but it doesn't affect the rest of
> the system. I have
> a working battery monitor, the fan doesn't run all
> the time, and so on.
> 
> (Sidenote: What I'd like to see is a "nice easy way"
> to get FC1 to work
> with all my ACPI-based things, such as the
> suspend/hibernate functionality
> and the volume up/down/mute buttons, as well as
> CPUFreq which doesn't seem
> to work on my notebook).
> 
> I don't really think the problem you've got has
> anything to do with ACPI.
> I suspect something else is amiss, that sounds to me
> like it's an XFree86
> config problem (i'm no expert tho).
> 
> To fix the toshiba module problem, you might be able
> to change
> /etc/rc.sysinit to not load the toshiba module.
> Where it says
> "# Initialiaze ACPI bits" in that file, change it to
> look like this:
> 
> ===== snip here =====
> # Initialiaze ACPI bits
> if [ -d /proc/acpi ]; then
>    for module in /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/* ; do
>       if ! strstr "$module" toshiba ; then
>           insmod $module
>       fi
>    done
> fi
> ===== snip here =====
> 
> Note that I have *NOT* tested this, because well,
> i'm too lazy/busy to
> reboot my laptop. It should work, but I'm not
> guaranteeing it ;)
> 
> -Dan
> 
> 
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