Problem: Cannot connect to Acpid

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:56 +0100, 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?

Try adding

--disable-acpi-acpid
or
--disable-acpi-proc

to the configure line. I think the configure line is confusing and needs
to be changed:

--disable-acpi-acpid     Use ACPI daemon event source
--disable-acpi-proc      Use ACPI kernel-interface directly(the kernel 
			 supports only one listener)

Richard.