Lost /proc/acpi/button w/ kernel upgrade 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3

[wwp]

Hello Tim,


On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:18:34 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:45 +0200, wwp wrote:
> 
> > I've upgraded my Fedora Core 3 kernel from 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 to
> > 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 and lost the /proc/acpi/button directory. It impacts,
> > for instance, the LID button state detection. I'm running FC3 on a Dell
> > Latitude D810. The ACPI button module is loaded (lsmod).
> 
> Read your grub.conf file, compare the current and previous entries.
> Perhaps you've got something on the kernel line that now disables ACPI,
> or is missing something that used to enable it.

Hmm no difference in grub.conf the latest kernel boots w/ the exact same
params than the previous one.


> For mine, I have to add acpi=force, because mine makes a silly
> assumption about the age of the BIOS not supporting ACPI.

And ACPI is turned ON. The only missing dir in /proc/acpi/ is button/. All
other ones are there. D'oh!


Regards,

-- 
wwp