Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg server wants acpid daemon?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:24:45PM -0600, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> >   I'm running an NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] add-on video card on 32-bit
> > Gentoo with xorg-server-1.13.0-r1.  It appears to be looking for acpid,
> > according to the Xorg.0.log.  "rc-update show" doesn't show anything
> > resembling acpid.  Would this have any impact on X performance or
> > stability?  It appears to run OK.
>
> It's not necessary for the drivers to run. The in-tree ebuild even has
> an acpi USE flag to pull acpid if required, but (AFAICS), it doesn't
> do anything in either case.

  Thanks very much for the information.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
We are apparently better off trying to avoid udev like the plague.
Linus Torvalds; 2012/10/03 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/349