[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts update & breakage

[Ben Armstrong]

On 04/21/2011 06:36 AM, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2011-04-21 05:38 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
>> Do you not use the acpi_osi="Linux" hack, then?
> 
> Never did. Apparently, things are not supposed to work without
> it but they did.

Ah. I'm thinking not for your model, then ...

> Whether eeepc_laptop and eeepc_wmi were loaded,
> I don't know.
> 
> I only tried setting acpi_osi when things broke after the
> kernel/eeepc-acpi-tools upgrade.
> 
> Latest results :
> 
> #1 eeepc-acpi-tools 1.1.11, kernel 2.6.32, acpi_osi="Linux" :
>   eeepc_laptop	loaded
>   eeepc_wmi	not loaded
>   Fn-F7		no-op
>   Fn-F1		no-op
>   lid down	no-op
>   guessnet	reconfigure eth0 on wake-up
> 
>   In this configuration, modprobe eeepc_wmi gives :
>     "Module not found"

As expected. eeepc_wmi not in that kernel.

> #2 eeepc-acpi-tools 1.1.11, kernel 2.6.38, acpi_osi="Linux" :
>   eeepc_laptop	loaded
>   eeepc_wmi	not loaded
>   Fn-F7		no-op
>   Fn-F1		no-op
>   lid down	no-op
>   guessnet	reconfigure eth0 on wake-up
> 
>   In this configuration, modprobe eeepc_wmi gives :
>     wmi: Mapper loaded
>     eeepc_wmi: No known WMI GUID found
>     FATAL: Error inserting eeepc_wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-686/
>       kernel/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.ko): No such device