[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#523449: Bug#523449: acpid fails to open input layer

[Michael Meskes]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:24:19AM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> * Starting in rescue mode (console works)
> * Setting up some services (hal etc)
> * On setting up acpid with the init script it reports again that it  
> fails to open the input layer
> * Starting kdm => nether keyboard or touchpad works
> * Hard reset
> * Again the first steps
> * Now I manualy started acpid by just typing "acpid" after  
> /etc/init.d/acpid start
> * Starting kdm
> * Keyboard works, but touchpad still not

Is your "MODULES" option in /etc/default/acpid set? The only meaningful
difference between starting acpid directly and running it through its init
script seems to be the load_modules part. 

Michael
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