>        I have installed acpid, but acpid will not start and gives the 
> following
> error:
>
> [10:24 alchemy:/home/david] # /etc/rc.d/acpid start
> :: Starting acpid                                                     [BUSY]
> acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
>                                                                      [FAIL]
>
>        What's the trick with acpid?

AFAIK you need to start it before hal (or maybe some other program
that opens it).

you can of course check with "lsof /proc/acpi/event " what's holding it open.

-- 
damjan

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