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Bug#345537: xserver-xorg: stopping acpid makes Xorg go crazy



tag 345537 - patch
tag 345537 unreproducible moreinfo
kthxbye

On Sun, Jan  1, 2006 at 17:07:26 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:

> I just noticed that Xorg uses ACPI's /proc/acpi/event. Now, when acpid
> is running Xorg is smart enough to read from its socket instead, and
> when you, brave user, stop acpid: kaboom!
> Xorg uses all my CPU leaving no option than restarting it.
> 
> Disabling PM management (Option "NoPM") obviously helps and also fixes
> xorg stealing /proc/acpi/event.
> 
Hey Mattia,

is this bug still relevant?  X never uses /proc/acpi/event anymore
afaik, it only tries to use the acpid socket, and should generally
behave fine if that's not possible.

Cheers,
Julien

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