Bug#347680: Xorg breaks acpid

[Pedro Côrte-Real]

On 1/24/06, Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Finally, to reiterate from my first email, it seems incorrect for X to
> > *ever* try for /proc/acpi/event on a typical Linux distribution.  Am I
> > mistaken?  Does anyone actually want to hook ACPI events but not use
> > acpid?  If this is truly as rare as it strikes me, then the standard
> > Linux compile of X should not even try for /proc/acpi/event at all.
>
> Possibly, it's an easy enough fix to remove the code. So if there's
> consensus then it should be removed.

I think the current direction is for these events to be handled by
hal. It connects directly to /proc/acpi/event and generates dbus
events and fake key presses through the kernel's uinput. acpid will
stop being used.

Pedro.