kacpid issues

John DeCarlo johndecarlo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 13:30:53 UTC 2005


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:00:04 +1100, Gary Jarrel
<gary at hybridkinetic.com.au> wrote:
> The main being that after leaving a system unattended for a random
> amount of time the kacpid daemon kicks in and eats up around 98% of the
> cpu. The only way to fix this is to switch the system of and back on
> again? I'm running on a HP Compaq nw8000 notebook and would be
> interested to hear if anyone else ran into any issues like this.
> Googling for it, seems to point to a bug in the debian kernel but I
> can't seem to get a definitive answer.

I don't have a definitive answer for you, sorry.

But you should be able to kill the acpi daemon, to avoid rebooting or
powering up / down.

sudo /etc/init.d/acpid stop

> 
> The other issue although not really that important, is that I'm unable
> to get bluetooth going, although I've spent very little time, any
> general pointers would be really appreciated.

If you go to the list archives, there has been discussion of bluetooth
and how to get it running.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own




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