[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#656473: Bug#656473: acpi-support-base: Fails to restart acpid.service (systemd)

[Michael Meskes]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:07:25PM -0200, Sergio Cipolla wrote:
> I even thought to myself if I should just uninstall acpi as I'm not on a
> laptop and acpi doesn't give much info anyway.

acpi is not involved at all, it's acpi-support that tries restarting acpid.

> Is acpid and acpi-support-base only for the power button on the case?

Yes, if acpi-support is not installed but only acpi-support-base, then it only
reacts on the power button. It doesn't do anything if any other power
management software is running, though. If you're using kde or gnome you
probably have the build-in power management running instead of the one provided
by acpi-support-base.

Michael
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