[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#521280: doesn't seem to affect thinkpad-acpi only

[Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi,

I am having similar problems with this issue. We are running Lenny
5.0.2 on several dozen clients and have backported kernel 2.6.30 from
unstable to get better hardware support.

Now, since CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT has been disabled with 2.6.29 and
above, the power button has stopped working on our desktop
machines. As far as I have understood this issue, acpid is moving from
the proc-interface to some hal/input-layer related model and thus the
Debian kernel-team has dropped CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT.

I have tested with both a machine running unstable with latest package
base and our Lenny clients with just the backported kernel and old
acpid.

Can someone enlighten me how I can fix this ? Where should I watch for
events generated by the power button now ?



Adrian