Is ACPID essential?

[Charlie Gray]

Chris Jones wrote:
> Charlie Gray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have googled this question, with no avail.
>>
>> Is ACPID a necessary service to start on-startup, or even run at all? If
>> not, will there be any side-effects of not running it?
> 
> Disabling it isn't really a good idea. It controls important management 
> stuff like power and thermal controls. Exactly what it does or does not 
> do depends on your precise hardware.
> 
> Why do you want to turn if off ? It is isn't causing you problems I 
> would just leave it, if it is giving problems, what are they ?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 

The problem I am encountering is that on boot-up it freezes on 'checking
battery state' but luckily, unlike others, I can simply switch to
another TTY and startx.

So it is not really hassling me that much, and I thought the simple
thing to do was to switch it off :)

-- 
Charlie Gray - <cgray at xelix.net>
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¡Ya basta!

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