On Wednesday 28 March 2012 16:38:07 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> I have a problem with kpowersave and ACPI on my T60p. kpowersave complains
> about missing ACPI support, battery status is not shown (it's always on AC,
> even when AC is disconnected).
>
> I can retrieve the battery status with acpi:
>
> $ acpi -b
> Battery 0: Discharging, 98%, 02:16:03 remaining
>
> Has anybody a clue what I am missing?
>
> It's running wheezy and TDE 3.5.13. acpid is running, thinkpad relevant
> modules are loaded, hal-trinity is installed, too.
>
> Nik

kpowersave doesn't use acpid, but HAL. Check if your user have permissions to 
query hal, via dbus.


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