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sa

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Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

hey,

i've had Arch on my Thinkpad T61p for a few days now , and I love it! Two problems though: I can't seem to get HAL or ACPID to work. I've gone through all the pages on the Arch Wiki, tried to get help from this and this page. I can't get anything to work. ACPI works of course. Every time I try to start HAL or ACPID i get something like this:

bash-3.2# /etc/rc.d/hal start
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                   [FAIL]
bash-3.2# /etc/rc.d/acpid start
:: Starting acpid                                                        [FAIL]

Here are the Daemons and Modules sections of my rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond net-profiles acpi wifi-radar laptop-mode hal)
MODULES=(e1000 iwl4965 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc thinkpad-acpi snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)

I remember something during boot about it failing to load ACPID, but I can't find that when I do dmesg. By the way, it doesn't seem that thinkpad_acpi is installed...

bash-3.2# ls -l /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/acpi
total 312
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9492 Mar 30 04:55 ac.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34774 Mar 30 04:55 asus_acpi.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22164 Mar 30 04:55 battery.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10444 Mar 30 04:55 bay.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14269 Mar 30 04:55 button.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8012 Mar 30 04:55 container.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17697 Mar 30 04:55 dock.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8583 Mar 30 04:55 fan.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54714 Mar 30 04:55 processor.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23493 Mar 30 04:55 sbs.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10158 Mar 30 04:55 sbshc.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26703 Mar 30 04:55 thermal.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13369 Mar 30 04:55 toshiba_acpi.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32196 Mar 30 04:55 video.ko

i've gone through all the pages I can find on this, I can't figure out how to fix these problems! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by sa (2008-05-29 17:36:06)

uastasi

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From: Salento - Italy

Registered: 2007-11-27

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

I had a similar problem solved by changing hierarchy in daemons array.
Move hal and comment acpid (was acpi before):

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond net-profiles hal !acpid wifi-radar laptop-mode )

Last edited by uastasi (2008-05-26 08:42:35)

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sa

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From: boston ma

Registered: 2008-05-23

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

thanks!! HAL seems to be working at least, but I still can't figure out how to get my computer to hibernate when I close the lid.

uastasi

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From: Salento - Italy

Registered: 2007-11-27

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

thanks!! HAL seems to be working at least, but I still can't figure out how to get my computer to hibernate when I close the lid.

Read this wiki page if you want to use pm-hibernate and pm-suspend -> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils

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sa

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From: boston ma

Registered: 2008-05-23

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

sorry, i should have been more specific - i've gone through that page too, and pm-suspend works when i type it in the terminal. i can't find out at all how to get it to sleep when i close the lid (or at least press Fn+F4).

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48748

Misfit138

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

Try here?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBM … _Hibernate

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sa

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From: boston ma

Registered: 2008-05-23

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Re: Can't figure out HAL and ACPID on T61p :( [semi-solved?]

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48748

i forgot to redo that after installing acpid, haha. except i must have done something wrong because it booted straight into hibernation. fixed that though.