[ltp] ibm_acpi and modprobe.conf

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:30, honey@gneek.com wrote:
>
>>> Yes indeed - I really actually need to do some proper rebooting and
>>> experimenting with both problems.  Lazy me, I'll try and do so in the
>>> next few days.
>>
>> OK - after several reboots for this and the radeonfb mystery (which
>> I'll reply to in a separate post) here's my conclusion:
>>
>> Renaming the ibm_acpi.ko module in /lib/modules/`uname
>
> Umm...
>
> ganesha ~ # modinfo ibm-acpi
> author:         Borislav Deianov
> description:    IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras
> version:        0.11
> license:        GPL
> parmtype:       experimental:int
> vermagic:       2.6.12-rc3_T42_acpi preempt PENTIUMM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3
> depends:
> srcversion:     55F6D8E7A8690697515E228
>
>
> Would the above have shown you what module you have loaded?
>
> Bret

Not when I last tried no - it just seemed to look at the earliest
module in modules.dep, not the loaded one.  Although it was during
testing so I could be wrong.  I can't currently compile ibm_acpi for
the latest Fedora development kernel, which may be the subject of the
next mail :)