Problem: Cannot connect to Acpid

[Doug Goldstein]

Fabian Zeindl wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  I've Gentoo, Hal 0.5.5.1 installed and don't get acpi events. in
> verbose mode hal keeps telling me:
> 
> addon-acpi.c:78: Cannot connect to acpid socket: No such
> file or directory
> 
> that's true, I don't have an acpid. v. 0.5.4 also worked without acpid,
> so is there a possibility to compile hal without acpid "support"?
> Gentoo compiles hal with the following options:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-os-type=gentoo
> --with-pid-file=/var/run/hald.pid --disable-verbose-mode
> --disable-pcmcia-support --enable-acpi-proc --disable-docbook-docs
> --disable-doxygen-docs --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> is there anything wrong about it?
> 
> greetings
> fabian
> 
Actually as you can see from the compile time options, Gentoo does not
use acpid. We use the /proc/acpi/event interface. I think I mentioned
that in the bugs you opened. This is the recommended way as per David
since all other progs should talk to HAL for acpi info.

-- 
Doug Goldstein <cardoe at gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/
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