Is ACPID essential?

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Charlie Gray <cgray at xelix.net> wrote:
> 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?

If your BIOS still supports APM, then I think you are ok without it.
Review the settings in the BIOS to make sure they look reasonable and let it go.

If it's an ACPI only BIOS (I don't know if that exists) I'd be a
little more wary.

Power management etc from linux may not work, but the motherboard
itself should then prevent your system from overheating, spin down the
drives when not in use etc.

I have ran/am running several systems that don't support ACPI (pre
2000) without issue.

Brian