On Tuesday 19 of April 2016 11:36:17 Jan Stolarek wrote: > Hi all, > > I have TDE 3.5.13.2 installed on Debian 7.10. Some time ago (probably after > one of security updates) my KPowerSave stopped working - it does not allow > me to set power scheme nor does it recognize whether the laptop is running > on battery or A/C. These features still work in other programs (eg. htop > recognizes whether I am running on battery or A/C, I can use cpufreq-set to > set CPU speed) so this is not a system-wide breakage. Does anyone have any > ideas what might be wrong? > > Janek > HAL does not have its own init script, because it automatically triggered by the dbus - see /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Hal.service However, it seems that I've discovered a problem due to what HAL startup fails. Try creating the following symlinks (needs to run as root): ln -s -t /etc/hal/fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/information /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe ...and then try to activate HAL by using the following command (as user): dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/ DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:org.freedesktop.Hal uint32:0 -- Sl�vek