Xorg 6.9 and ACPID

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:58 -0500, Matthew Cross wrote:
> driver is i915, which I think uses the i810 one.  I'm
> not disabling dri, because I use it.

was just to test it 

> I built it from source, from the site, 

you can try build has rpms like I has explain on
http://www.sergiomb.no-ip.org/xorg/

> I didn't use
> CVS.  The explanation I received on linuxquestions.org
> is: 
> "if acpid is already running xorg opens acpid socket
> and all is happy

ACPID by default start on boot many time before Xorg
so 
chkconfig --list acpid 
should give :
acpid           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
else , you could enable it using
chkconfig acpid on
and check again with:
chkconfig --list acpid 

> if xorg starts first xorg takes /proc/acpi/event and
> nobody else can read from it."
> And this is pretty much what happens.  Once xorg is
> started, I can open a terminal and start acpid usually
> okay, but I can't get my battery monitor functioning. 
> The only way to have everything work is to let the
> acpid start first in runlevel 3, then startx.  
> 
> --- Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > What drive? r300 ?
> > try disable dri  ?
> > How you build and install your Xorg 6.9 ?
> > I installed Xorg 6.9 on several computer and don't
> > see any problem.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:29 -0500, Matthew Cross
> > wrote:
> > > Every since building and installing Xorg 6.9 on
> > Fedora
> > > core 4, my ACPID fails to start in run level 5.
> > I'm
> > > resigned to using run level 3 and starx manually. 
> > > I've heard that this is a known issue with this
> > and
> > > I'm wondering if a work around/fix is available
> > for
> > > this problem? I'm 100% convinced this is related
> > to
> > > xorg 6.9 as this is my second install of FC4 and
> > the
> > > same problem arose on the first install when I
> > > upgraded to 6.9.
> > -- 
> > Sérgio M. B.

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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