Cannot makepkg acpi_call

Question

Having installed fresh Arch on an Asus 1015pn with Nvidia/ION, it overheats and shuts down after 2-3mins since acpi_call-git isn't there to power down ION.
I'm frantically trying to install acpi but getting this error
makepkg -s
==> WARNING: Sudo can not be found. Will use su to acquire root privileges.
==> Determining latest git revision...
-> Version found: 20120812
==> Making package: acpi_call-git 20120812-1 (Sun Aug 12 19:17:04 UTC 2012)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
==> Git checkout: Updating existing tree
Already up-to-date.
==> Git checkout: Tree has been updated
==> Checkout completed
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
-> Building module for 3.4.8-1-ARCH...
install: cannot stat 'acpi_call.ko': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...
uname -r
3.4.8-1ARCH
pacman -Q linux
linux 3.4.8-1
What can I do to fix this?
EDIT: sudo is now installed, same error
Last edited by dabbi2000 (2012-08-12 19:40:20)

Answer 1

Hmmm.. perhaps that you are trying to install acpi?
so you're not root?
so in the command line write:
           >sudo pacman -S acpi
(note sudo before any other command)
pacman have a function for search packages, for example if you are looking something for acpi you can type:
           > sudo pacman -Ss acpi
and it gives you a list with packages related to it.
I can sugest you to install:
               >sudo pacman -S laptop-mode-tools acpid