Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ? RESOLVED

[Thanasis]

on 09/11/2007 11:14 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
> uname -r
> 2.6.22-gentoo-r5
>
> I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel:
>
> grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\#
> CONFIG_ACPI=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
> CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
> CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
> CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y
>
> *BUT* , isn't acpid needed by some apps like gnome battery charge monitor?
> Why does "emerge --update" suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid?
> Is there something else we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid?
>
> Thanasis
>
>
Portage was correct.
I didn't need acpid as I had hald (hal) installed. I just needed to
start hald.  :-) 



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