On 30/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roberto Ragusa</b> <<a href="mailto:mail@robertoragusa.it">mail@robertoragusa.it</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Christoph Höger wrote:<br>> Am Sonntag, den 30.09.2007, 01:49 +0100 schrieb Christopher Brown:<br>>><br>>> I take it:<br>>><br>>> # modprobe thinkpad-acpi<br>>><br>>> doesn't do anything for you?
<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I did not know that module until this morning. Thank you for the hint :)<br>> And to topic: I can use FN-F5 with this module in F7 with<br>> 2.6.22.9-91.fc7<br><br>It was called ibm-acpi until a few weeks ago, then it
<br>changed for F7 too.<br>The path also changed and that causes a problem because<br>/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit doesn't load the module.<br><br>The new path is:<br><br> /lib/modules/$unamer/kernel/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.ko
<br><br>But the loading script does this:<br><br> # Initialize ACPI bits<br> if [ -d /proc/acpi ]; then<br> for module in /lib/modules/$unamer/kernel/drivers/acpi/* ; do<br> module=${module##*/}<br> module=${module%.ko}
<br> modprobe $module >/dev/null 2>&1<br> done<br> fi<br><br>I noticed because some gkrellm temperature readings (gkibm-acpi) are<br>unavailable without the module.</blockquote><div><br>It was moved to drivers/misc for
2.6.22 (and renamed from ibm-acpi to thinkpad-acpi) as it doesn't just cover acpi functions. As this is intentional it looks like sysinit will need tweaking. Maybe.<br><span></span><br>I've filed a bug with patch for this.
<br><br><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313091">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313091</a><br><br>We'll see what happens.<br><br>Cheers<br>Chris<br></div></div><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.chruz.com">
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