acpid

I am running Debian testing on amd64. About a week ago acpid began reporting an error status whenever I "apt-get upgrade" or use synapsis from gnome: Setting up acpid (1.0.4-7.1) ... Loading ACPI modules Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpi

New User

from the programmer's perspective. I think I am using Gnome, so my first priority is programming for Gnome, but if I can program for both, even better. Any recommended literature and relevant references and/or urls are quite welcome and will be appreciated. Byron Watkins -