Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:55:29
Message-Id: 1189543544.5987.87.camel@TesterTop3.tester.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ? by Thanasis
1 On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 23:33 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
2 > on 09/11/2007 11:14 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
3 > > uname -r
4 > > 2.6.22-gentoo-r5
5 > >
6 > > I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel:
7 > >
8 > > grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\#
9 > > CONFIG_ACPI=y
10 > > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
11 > > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
12 > > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
13 > > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
14 > > CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
15 > > CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
16 > > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
17 > > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
18 > > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
19 > > CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
20 > > CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
21 > > CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
22 > > CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
23 > > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y
24 > >
25 > > *BUT* , isn't acpid needed by some apps like gnome battery charge monitor?
26 > > Why does "emerge --update" suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid?
27 > > Is there something else we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid?
28 > >
29 > > Thanasis
30 > Actually I should be posting this to the *gentoo-user* list as this
31 > system is a i686 Pentium III, but the same thing happens for a AMD64
32 > machine too!
33 >
34 > Thanasis
35 > PS: Also, it's late here and I'm tired. Sorry :-[
36
37 Last I checked, gnome-power-manager did not use acpid anymore
38
39 --
40 Olivier Crête
41 tester@g.o
42 Gentoo Developer

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ? Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@×××××.com>