From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+ Description of problem: The kernel module asus_acpi can not be loaded with modprobe. The command exits with FATAL: Error inserting asus_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1447_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.ko): No such device It worked perfectly with kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4. The module was automatically loaded with this kernel and the special keys of my ASUS laptop worked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 2. modprobe asus_acpi Actual Results: modprobe exits with FATAL: Error inserting asus_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1447_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.ko): No such device and module is not loaded Expected Results: module should be loaded and special keys of my ASUS laptop should work. Additional info:
Difference in dmesg: does not work (kernel 2.6.12-1.1447): ... ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729 ... ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line) Asus Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.29 L5D model detected, supported ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ibm_acpi: ec object not found ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) ... works (kernel 2.6.12-1.1398): ... ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309 ... ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line) Using generic hotkey driver ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] ibm_acpi: Using generic hotkey driver toshiba_acpi: Using generic hotkey driver ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) ...
Same problem with ASUS A3G with FC3 #uname -a Linux asus 2.6.12-1.1377_FC3 #modprobe asus_acpi FATAL: Error inserting asus_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1377_FC3/kernel/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.ko): No such device with kernel 376 same problem. # cat /proc/acpi/info version: 20050902
Additional info to post #2 # uname -a Linux asus 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 with this kernel is ok (x86 centrino)
asus_acpi worked for me on an M5678N notebook with 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 (and older ones). Since 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 this is broken for me. Neither 2.6.12-1.1450_FC4, nor 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 has fixed this. asus_acpi.ko cannot be loaded (no such device). I am not sure if it is related, but since 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 doing "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info" (or any other file in the BAT0-directory) takes a long time, around ~30 seconds until I get (the correct output). This only affects the battery-directory, others like cpu, fan, ac_adapter do not show this problem.
A3800G family of notebooks (my box specifically A3843GLP) has same problem starting with kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4. Before that kernel version asus_acpi module loaded itself with message "A3G model detected, unsupported". Here is an overview for different kernel versions: 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 asus_acpi module automatically loaded. Here is messge after modprobe asus_acpi with previousely unloaded module.: A3G model detected, unsupported, trying default values, supply the developers with your DSDT Another annoyance: KDE Session allways produced lots of :Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status ... Sep 24 22:33:22 localhost kernel: Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status Sep 24 22:33:53 localhost last message repeated 608 times Sep 24 22:34:54 localhost last message repeated 1216 times Sep 24 22:35:55 localhost last message repeated 1220 times Sep 24 22:35:58 localhost last message repeated 65 times ... GNOME Session on the other hand was free of those messages. 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 asus_acpi module does not load itself automatically. modprobe asus_acpi returns with: FATAL: Error inserting asus_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1447_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.ko): No such device After some time notebook freezes (i was not able to finish this section without freezing). And to mention of course dozen of following two messages before that: Sep 24 22:56:07 localhost kernel: ACPI-0105: *** Error: Could not allocate new owner_id (32 max), AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT Sep 24 22:56:07 localhost kernel: ACPI-0509: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.SMBR] (Node c18 dbe00), AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT After booting with acpi=off problem disappeared. 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 asus_acpi module still does not load. modprobe asus_acpi returns with: FATAL: Error inserting asus_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1447_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.ko): No such device. At least system does not freeze itselfs.
I got the same errors with kernel versions newer than 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 on my Asus W1N series notebook. asus_acpi.ko cannot be loaded (no such device). If there's anything I can do (like testing patches and such), just contact me. I'd be happy to help.
Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks.
This kernel works for me.