toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd initialisation failed

Please let me know if you need anything more than this.

I can confirm that hotkeys_over_acpi does not work in edgy, and that ktoshkeysd crashes. It didn't cause xorg to hang on my nvidia driver, but I can't change brightness or mute the volume since ktoshkeysd crashed. Bug #63305 has more info on my particular situation, but its largely the same.

If anyone else can confirm Xorg hanging on a base install, I suggest bumping the importance to High.

Don't know about base install, but on my system (toshiba sa50) upgrading from dapper to edgy renders the system not bootable (oops during "init" phase, no X, no login). Same symptoms reported here. Booting with acpi=off solves the issue, but being a laptop I don't think this is recommended solution. I'm going to try with the suggestion above, in order to disable only toshiba_acpi. Anyway I think importance should be bumped to high, since the system is no more able to boot, and works flawlessly with 2.6.15 (dapper version).

I have a similar problem, after I upgrade to edgy:
dmesg |grep toshiba
toshiba_acpi: Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.19a-dev
toshiba_acpi: HCI method: \_SB_.VALD.GHCI
toshiba_acpi: Toshiba hotkeys are sent as ACPI events
toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd will check 2 times per second
toshiba_acpi: Registration of toshkeys acpi device failed
toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd initialisation failed. Refusing to load module

Computer: Toshiba A20-S207
Kernel: 2.6.17-10.28

With dapper, the fnfxd software work fine, but, in edgy, we report:
fatal error: Could open /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys

In /proc/acpi/ don't have toshiba directory.

Tiago

Patch attached.

Ben, this needs to be fixed for release - patch included.

Sweet. As of 2.6.17-10.29, hotkeys and other acpi events appear to be working again on my Tecra M7.

works here too

Works for me on Toshiba Portget 4830CT. Still getting strange messages on console during boot (not appearing in dmesg) mentioning EAX and some hex numbers, although I'm not complaining - this latter problem also only started happening after the infamous 2.6.17-8 kernel release

works fine here, see:

toshiba_acpi: Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.19a-dev
toshiba_acpi: HCI method: \_SB_.VALD.GHCI
toshiba_acpi: Toshiba hotkeys are sent as ACPI events
toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd will check 2 times per second
toshiba_acpi: Dropped 0 keys from the queue on startup

Just a pointer to anyone with an apparently similar problem, for whom the advice and fix in this bug doesn't work: take a look at Bug #68814

works fine with me in Toshiba Tecra M1

y3dips@tarantula:~$ dmesg |grep toshiba
[17179613.416000] toshiba_acpi: Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.19a-dev
[17179613.416000] toshiba_acpi: HCI method: \_SB_.VALD.GHCI
[17179613.416000] toshiba_acpi: Toshiba hotkeys are sent as ACPI events
[17179613.416000] toshiba_acpi: ktoshkeyd will check 2 times per second
[17179613.420000] toshiba_acpi: Dropped 0 keys from the queue on startup

i have a Toshiba satellite a110-178 and with my ubuntu feisty the toshiba_acpi isn't available at all.
Is this because my laptop doesn't support it ?? or does this has to do something with this ubuntu version