Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 385431
toshiba_acpi doesn't get loaded automatically
Last modified: 2008-01-27 15:25:30 EST
Description of problem: Previously, the toshiba_acpi kernel module was automatically loaded on my Toshiba A50 laptop during system start-up. This is not the case with Fedora 8 anymore. I can modprobe it manually so it's not a sudden hardware problem. This is pretty annoying since this module is needed to control screen brightness, video switching, hotkeys and other cool stuff. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hwdata-0.207-2.fc8 kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 ...and other up-to-date F8 packages Additional info: Not sure where the root cause is, just trying hwdata :)
This used to get loaded from rc.sysinit in initscripts in the past, but was removed from there. Probably real fix is to change the kernel to make sure it gets loaded. Not something for hwdata to fix, please open a new request against kernel or initscripts to get this fixed up. regards, Florian La Roche
Reopening rather than creating a new one...
Okay, reassigning to initscripts. I don't see any reason why vendor-specific kernel modules shouldn't be auto-loaded anymore.
This is a kernel bug; the module needs to provide the proper DMI aliases.
attach dmidecode output please.
Created attachment 273191 [details] dmidecode output
Attached.
Hello, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if you are still having problems with the latest kernel? If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged.
Hi Chris, I worked around this issue by modprobe'ing toshiba_acpi in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is, ehm, ugly, but works :) . I can definitely try to nuke this hack and reboot and see if this problem still exists or not. I hope it wait for some time, you know, since hibernating works great on my laptop, I don't really reboot it too often.
If you can test, maybe with 2.6.24 when it arrives that would be good...
I actually think I'm lame. Is the kernel module really supposed to be loaded automatically? What I didn't write in comment 0 was that I was using fnfx previously, but I didn't have it installed when I installed F8, started working with it, and hit this "bug". Then I installed it again (and also set up the rc.local hack), and everything was OK. No wonder, the fnfx init script loads toshiba_acpi when it's not yet loaded... Not sure about the question I just wrote, but I guess the answer isn't really "Yes". Closing this bug.