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battery applet not working in GNOME due to ACPI error

Hi,

when I try to load the battery status applet, it shows me the following message:

Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem in working and the acpid daemon in running.

I have, of course, ACPI support in the kernel (no APM, only ACPI as I read mixing AMP and ACPI is not a good idea) and I installed acpid-1.0.4, but I still get that error every time I log into GNOME and try to load the applet...

how can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Julio

Do you have acpid running?

Oops :eek: (forgot to make it run) :cry:

but there's not a BLFS bootscript for ACPI daemon (not sure but I think there isn't a rule for 'make install-acpi')...

how do I create the script for it to run? :scratch:

Julio

Here's a bootscript I made with some files it uses.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/acpid

Code:

. /etc/sysconfig/rc

. $rc_functions



case "$1" in

        start)

                echo "Starting acpid..."

                if [ ! -e /proc/acpi ]; then

                        echo -n "ACPI support has not been compiled into the kernel"

                        echo_failure

                else

                        loadproc /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events

                fi

                ;;

        stop)

                echo "Stopping acpid..."

                killproc /usr/sbin/acpid

                ;;

        restart)

                $0 stop

                sleep 1

                $0 start

                ;;

        status)

                statusproc /usr/bin/acpid

                ;;

        *)

                echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"

                exit 1

                ;;

esac

/etc/acpi/events/default (from Gentoo)

Code:

# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation

# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-power/acpid/files/acpid-1.0.4-default,v 1.2 2005/04/24 16:21:45 brix Exp $



# This is the ACPID default configuration, it takes all

# events and passes them to /etc/acpi/default.sh for further

# processing.



# event keeps a regular expression matching the event. To get

# power events only, just use something like "event=button[ /]power.*"

# to catch it.

# action keeps the command to be executed after an event occurs

# In case of the power event above, your entry may look this way:

#event=button[ /]power.*

#action=/sbin/init 0



# Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass

# through the whole kernel event message to the program you've

# specified.



event=.*

action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e

/etc/acpi/default.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions



set $*



group=${1/\/*/}

action=${1/*\//}



case "$group" in

        button)

                case "$action" in

                        power)  /sbin/init 0

                                ;;

                                esac

                                ;;

                        *)      logger "ACPI action $action is not defined"

                                ;;

                esac

                ;;



        *)

                logger "ACPI group $group / action $action is not defined"

                ;;

esac

Hi kjordan,

thanks for the valuable info ;)

Julio