On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Werner Joss wrote: > Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 11:21:26 schrieb Alexandre: >> Can you post a screenshot of you searching for the keyword powersave in >> Synaptic. It is very very unlikely that it is not there. > > well, problem solved :) > it turned out that > - my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.list file (which kept the entries for > trinity) had vanished during my initial several 'dist-upgrades' (forced by > errors) > - once fixed, aptitude found tdepowersave, which would uninstall/replace > kpowersave upon installation > > after next reboot, tdepowersave starts automatically and works as expected. > thanks for your help. glad you got yours figured out. not so lucky here. trying to install the new release practically killed my system. I wrestled it back to near health though there are still issues, including the kpowersave issue. I didn't have tdepowersave in apt-cache. I took the hard-drive out and put in a new virgin one, did a new install but for carrying over home. that has the tdepowersave app but it is misbehaving: it shuts down the system no matter what I put in the configuration menu. (or maybe something else does...?) guess this is an advance since the other version either didn't have a config menu or only had one after manually loading hald. even then I wasn't sure it was doing anything. the new ssd card is cool though. makes a difference I hadn't noticed on my netbook, the laptop has more and faster cpus. F. -- Felmon Davis The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler