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From: Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:33:53
Message-Id: 7a329d910709120324p3daf4ea4o38148a7352ea2ff0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ? by "Olivier Crête"
1 On 9/11/07, Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 23:33 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
3 > > on 09/11/2007 11:14 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
4 > > > uname -r
5 > > > 2.6.22-gentoo-r5
6 > > >
7 > > > I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel:
8 > > >
9 > > > grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\#
10 > > > CONFIG_ACPI=y
11 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
12 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
13 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
14 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
15 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
16 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
17 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
18 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
19 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
20 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
21 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
22 > > > CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
23 > > > CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
24 > > > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y
25 > > >
26 > > > *BUT* , isn't acpid needed by some apps like gnome battery charge monitor?
27 > > > Why does "emerge --update" suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid?
28 > > > Is there something else we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid?
29 > > >
30 > > > Thanasis
31 > > Actually I should be posting this to the *gentoo-user* list as this
32 > > system is a i686 Pentium III, but the same thing happens for a AMD64
33 > > machine too!
34 > >
35 > > Thanasis
36 > > PS: Also, it's late here and I'm tired. Sorry :-[
37 >
38 > Last I checked, gnome-power-manager did not use acpid anymore
39 >
40 > --
41 > Olivier Crête
42 > tester@g.o
43 > Gentoo Developer
44
45 Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't acpid more or less been
46 replaced by hald?
47
48 Wil
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