ACPI integration

[Pierre Ossman]

Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:14 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> 
>>New versions of xorg seem to have better integration with ACPI by
>>talking to either acpid or directly with the kernel. On fedora this
>>causes problems.
>>
>>Since fedora uses a graphical boot, the X server will have opened
>>/proc/acpi/events, causing the startup of acpid to fail. For some reason
>>it is only opened during the graphical boot, not by the "normal" X
>>server. So I'm guessing there's a way to control this behaviour.
> 
> 
> ACPID needs to be running before the Xserver starts. 
> 
> The Xserver will try to open /var/run/acpid.socket which is what acpid
> provides when it's started. If the Xserver can't open it, then it will
> open /proc/acpi/events directly which causes acpid to fail.
> 
> So really, acpid should be moved up in Fedora boot process.
> 

Probably yes. But when I start the X server manually it doesn't open
either of these. So it must depend on some configuration parameter. The
graphical boot doesn't run for very long so it isn't critical that it
can use this new feature.

Rgds
Pierre