Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 15:58:33 schrieb Felmon Davis: > 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. that was here only with vanished sources.list entrys for trinity. > 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...?) I suppose, it must be something else. > 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. does it at least show the battery status ? (it should, of course). Werner