Problem: Cannot connect to Acpid

[Fabian Zeindl]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:03:37AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > ./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.

And why do I get this message then? (hald started with daemon=yes,
--use-syslog)

0586: 12:40:58.189: addon-acpi.c:78: Cannot connect to acpid socket: No
such file or directory

fabian