Problem: Cannot connect to Acpid

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:23 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:39:09PM +0100, Fabian Zeindl wrote:
> > Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > 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:
> 
> What is confusing here? You have two possible event sources, HAL can
> figure out automatically which one to use. You can "configure" to disable
> one of the sources. If you disable both you don't have _any_ event.
> 
> > > --disable-acpi-acpid     Use ACPI daemon event source
> > > --disable-acpi-proc      Use ACPI kernel-interface directly(the kernel 
> > > 			 supports only one listener)
> > 
> > Ok, when I add both options it works. Weirdly "--disable-acpi-acpi-proc"
> > Enables the acpi proc source and --disable-acpi-acpid disables the use
> > of acpid. As far as I understood if you want acpi support at all you
> > need "--disable-acpi-acpi-proc" and if you don't want to use acpid (=
> > use /proc/acpi/event directly) you need "--disable-acpi-acpid too".
> 
> Just leave them alone and HAL should work just fine. No need to
> configure anything.

What I meant is the configure.in explanation is odd. Shouldn't the help
text be:

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

> > If I'm right, this should be fixed in configure.
> > (--disable-acpi-acpi-proc source should be renamed to
> > --enable-acpi-acpi-proc)
> 
> There is nothing to fix on the option naming. If it doesn't work as
> expected it's a bug in the HAL code not in the options. It should work
> fine even without any of the options given.

Agreed.

Richard.