Is ACPID essential?

[Charlie Gray]

Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 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 :)
> 
> Just because it is failing on one thing, your battery, doesn't mean it 
> isn't performing useful tasks in other places (like keeping your fans 
> turning....). Also, perhaps acpi is fine and your battery has a problem ;)
> 
> So I wouldn't turn it off, but suggest trying to debug the problem. You 
> still haven't really given any firm details (hardware details, the full 
> error messages, any output from /var/log/*.log relating to acpi etc.)
> 
> cheers Chris
> 

I have got a desktop computer, not a laptop. So there is no way the
battery is failing :P

Do you have any idea what logs you will require, as I cannot find any
called anything related to ACPI in /var/log/

I didn't get any error messages, but I do not know what log to look in!
Any pointers?

- Slightly OT question - Whenever I am about to reply to you/the mailing
list, it also adds you to the reply field (when I use the reply function
in thunderbird) Is that what I am supposed to do, or not?

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

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