I had the problem on a new install. It weas a fresh wheezy + TDE14 install. On synaptics at least some "informations" are problematic. Actually, three packages are (more or less available): I first looked for kpowersave (that's what I am used to) and found two pakackages: - kpowersave-trinity, requiring HAL (it is sitll there, it installs but does not work: I get a greyed out icon in the system tray). Trying to start it complained about HAL not being installed - kpowersave-nohal-trinity, indicated as a dummy package. When I tried to install it colored red and said it depended on a package (I think now it was tdepowersave, but I am not sure) that was not to be installed. After reading the list I removed the non-working kpowersave and apt-get installed tdepowersave and that works perfectly. I don't know if the two kpowersave are necessary, but most "old" users being used to them they actually work as a trap :) Thierry