> 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