Bug 677782

Summary: fatal error: Could open /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys`
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Partezana <chris.partezana>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: gansalmon, itamar, jfeeney, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Chris Partezana 2011-02-15 20:34:13 UTC 
Description of problem:

Starting fnfxd: modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.ko): No such device

FnFX Daemon v0.3 (c) 2003, 2004 Timo Hoenig <thoenig>

fatal error: Could open /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys.

Please make sure that your kernel has enabled the Toshiba option in the ACPI section.
For more information read the documentation and/or http://fnfx.sf.net/index.php?section=doc#kernel.

	[FAILED]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F14


How reproducible: any Toshiba laptop


Steps to Reproduce:
1. load F14 onto a Toshiba laptop
2. error
  
Actual results:

error has existed for several releases. see bug report 587322

Expected results:

no error

Additional info:
Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2011-02-16 13:09:34 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Description of problem:
> 
> Starting fnfxd: modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi
> (/lib/modules/2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.ko):
> No such device

That means that your Toshiba model is not supported by the driver.
Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2011-08-29 18:38:20 UTC 
There hasn't been much work done on this driver upstream.  We aren't going to fix this on f14, but if you provide hardware details you might be able to discuss this with upstream and get supported added.