Re: Where is the ACPI?

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:13:53PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> 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?

boot with the command line argument acpi=on

Dave