Where is the ACPI?

[Lorenzo Prince]

I tested the first release of Severn on my laptop and had no trouble with it.  The ACPI worked beautifully.  But in this 
release, it detects the ACPI system in the machine, but it gives me a message during bootup that says

acpi: interpreter disabled

and ACPI doesn't work.  If I type

service acpid (insert anything here)

I get no messages of any kid.  However when I run

acpid

I get the error message

acpid: /proc/acpi/event: no such file or directory

What do I need to do to fix this?

Thanks,
Prince