From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVF54-0002kF-Mw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:23:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8BNEWmw000377; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:14:32 GMT Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (adsl21-213.ath.forthnet.gr [77.49.212.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8BN8p1n025132 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:08:53 GMT Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laptop.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2E417CB80 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:08:50 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.0.9] (turion.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.9]) by laptop.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B71717C97B for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:08:50 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <46E72001.5050901@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:08:49 +0300 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070901) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why unmerge acpid ? RESOLVED References: <46E6FC32.1050905@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <46E6FC32.1050905@asyr.hopto.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: ac310523-04c2-4a05-97d2-73c42bd43d9c X-Archives-Hash: a935011a30ae678c4b59f57296e54c91 on 09/11/2007 11:36 PM Thanasis wrote the following: > uname -r > 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 > > I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel: > > grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\# > CONFIG_ACPI=y > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m > CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m > CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 > CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y > CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y > CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y > CONFIG_PNPACPI=y > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y > > *BUT* , isn't acpid needed by some apps like gnome battery charge monitor? > Why does "emerge --update" suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid? > Is there something else we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid? > > Thanasis > Portage was correct. I didn't need acpid as I had hald (hal) installed. I just needed to start hald. :-) Thank you all for your help :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list