[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#584203: acpi-fakekey: fails to start at boot

[Michael Meskes]

> After installing 0.136-4, it still fails at boot with the same
> message. But I now
> see this message above, which did not show before:
> 
> 'Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...open device: No such file or directory'

The initscript makes sure the module is included before starting acpi_fakekeyd,
so the device should be there. Strange.

> Can now manually start with: /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd, acpi_fakekeyd
> and invoke acpi_fakekeyd start.

Eh? Does that mean it only doesn't start in the boot process but works
correctly if run later on? Could you go into /etc/init.d/acpi-fakekey and add a
"sleep 5" after the modprobe and before the "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet
--oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd" and retry?

> But still does not control alsamixer like it did before.

This seems to be a different problem. Which hardware do you have? What keycodes
are produced? Please note that acpi-support only translates key events and you
might still need some other software like a mixer to react on these.

Michael
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