Bug#487904: xserver-xorg-video-nv: Open ACPI failed

[Ryo Furue <furue@hawaii.edu>]

Hi Julien,

| > | > Without the acpid package installed, /var/log/Xorg.0.log  is filled with
| > | > 
| > | >   (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
| > | > 
| > | > If that's the case, shouldn't xserver-xorg-video-nv depend on acpid ?
| > | > 
| > | No.
| > 
| > The reason being . . . ?
| > 
| .. that it doesn't need it?  X uses the acpid socket if it finds it, and
| /proc/acpi/event if not.

Thank you for the explanation!

|  It shouldn't fill the log with warnings though.
| 
Is it then possible to reclassify this thread to wishlist?

My log file was growing and growing (since the message was emitted
every five seconds or so).  I googled using the warning message
as the search term.  The first four or so hits all mentioned that
the problem was due to the nVidia driver without showing
any solutions.  In the fifth or so, which was a forum discussion,
a person told to install the acpid package but a respondent
complained that s/he didn't want to because s/he didn't need it.
That means that I wasn't alone in being troubled by the log file.

Thank you again.

Regards,
Ryo