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

[Patrick Matthäi]

Michael Meskes schrieb:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:31:12PM +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
> 
> Wait a moment, I should have read more carefully. Does this mean in the
> "working" case you run acpid manually *after* running the init script? And when
> executing it for the second time it does *not* report an error opening the
> netlink device?

Yep that is right. But the first *manual* call of acpid also does not 
report it..
Anyway it is not working completly, my touchpad still does not work 
after this.