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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:42:45
Message-Id: 46E6FB92.6010908@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ? by Thanasis
1 on 09/11/2007 11:14 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
2 > uname -r
3 > 2.6.22-gentoo-r5
4 >
5 > I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel:
6 >
7 > grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\#
8 > CONFIG_ACPI=y
9 > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
10 > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
11 > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
12 > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
13 > CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
14 > CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
15 > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
16 > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
17 > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
18 > CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
19 > CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
20 > CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
21 > CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
22 > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y
23 >
24 > *BUT* , isn't acpid needed by some apps like gnome battery charge monitor?
25 > Why does "emerge --update" suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid?
26 > Is there something else we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid?
27 >
28 > Thanasis
29 Actually I should be posting this to the *gentoo-user* list as this
30 system is a i686 Pentium III, but the same thing happens for a AMD64
31 machine too!
32
33 Thanasis
34 PS: Also, it's late here and I'm tired. Sorry :-[
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ? "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>