Hi Mark, No, xserver does not need acpi to be running. We've known for some time about the error message that gets produced when it isn't there; in fact I had to quell it because it'd spam the Xorg.0.log (see lp #247195). The spamming eventually got fixed upstream, but the acpi probing code (and corresponding error message) is still there.
What the code in question is doing is setting up a listener to acpid for power management events (suspend/resume/battery-status) If it doesn't see acpid at boot, it sets a timer to try again later. So as I understand it, it's not really X *depending* on acpi for anything but rather honoring its presence if it is there. I checked a recently installed/updated desktop and laptop and see that acpid is still present on both, so assume it's appropriate for X to continue to listen for them. I'm subbing Steve in hopes he understands this notification path better and can shed some light for us. -- *dm upstart job should depend on acpid because X tries to connect to acpid socket very soon after starting. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
