On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:44, Michael Meskes <<a href="mailto:meskes@debian.org">meskes@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Just to clarify this, you added the line after the "fi" and not inside the<br>
> "then" branch right? It wouldn't get run inside the "then".<br><br>Sorry should have being clearer, like this: <br><br>'if ! modprobe -q uinput; then<br>sleep 5'<br><br>I changed it to:<br>
<br>'if ! modprobe -q uinput; sleep 5; then'<br><br>With the above it does start at boot now:<br><br>'Starting ACPI services ....<br>Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.' <br>
<br>But now I get a different message:<br><br>'failed (Modprobe uinput failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why).<br>[...] input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device as /devices/virtual/input/input8'<br><br>But lsmod shows:<br>
<br>'uinput 4796 1' <br><br>dmesg is attached, tho I don't see anything wrong.<br><br>> With which version of acpi-support? Does it work again if you install an older version ?<br><br>I currently have the latest 0.136-4. I tried with 0.136-[1-3] of:<br>
acpi-support[-base] and acpi-fakekey, like you suggested.<br><br>Also tried with other kernels: 2.6.32-3 and 2.6.32-5[2.6.32-13]. And still the same.<br><br>> Could you please run kacpimon and report which events get generated?<br>
<br>kacpimon[using versions 0.136-[1-4] of each: acpi-support, acpi-support-base and acpi-fakekey,<br>also with the kernels above:<br><br>Kernel ACPI Event Monitor...<br>open for /proc/acpi/event: No such file or directory (2)<br>
(ACPI proc filesystem may not be present)<br>/dev/input/event0 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard) opened successfully<br>/dev/input/event1 (Lid Switch) opened successfully<br>/dev/input/event2 (Sleep Button) opened successfully<br>
/dev/input/event3 (Power Button) opened successfully<br>/dev/input/event4 (PC Speaker) opened successfully<br>/dev/input/event5 (Video Bus) opened successfully<br>/dev/input/event6 (ThinkPad Extra Buttons) opened successfully<br>
/dev/input/event7 (TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint) opened successfully<br>/dev/input/event8 (ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device) opened successfully<br>Netlink ACPI Family ID: 17<br>Netlink ACPI Multicast Group ID: 1<br>netlink opened successfully<br>
Press Escape to exit, or Ctrl-C if that doesn't work.<br>Input Layer: Type: 4 Code: 4 Value: 28<br>Input Layer: Type: 1 Code: 28 Value: 0<br>Input Layer: Sync<br>Input Layer: Type: 4 Code: 4 Value: 1<br>Escape key pressed<br>
Input Layer: Type: 1 Code: 1 Value: 1<br>Closing files...<br>Goodbye<br><br>Thanks,<br>Michel<br>