On Tuesday 12 June 2012 3:30:52 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 10:39:49 am Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> > New laptop, installed Debian Wheezy AMD64, which is Debians current
> >> > testing branch
> >> > and TDE 3.5.14 from nightly builds., built for Wheezy.
> >> >
> >> > TDE is working  well here. Since this is a laptop install I want to
> >> > usekpowersave.
> >> > I get the kpowersave icon in my systray but there is no inormation or
> >> > options
> >> > available when I right click on the icon.
> >>
> >> Do you have HAL installed?  Is HAL running?
> >>
> >> There is another application I wrote to directly interact with the new
> >> TDE
> >> hardware library (bypassing HAL altogether), but it does not have a
> >> Debian/Ubuntu package available from the nightly builds yet.  Sources
> >> are
> >> here: http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/kpowersave-nohal/
> >>
> >> Tim
> >
> > hald was not running, but it is installed via hal-trinity metapackage.  I
> > can
> > manually start it and kpowersave now has some configurable options.
> >
> > hald is not getting added to any run levels,
> >
> > Debian uses rcS.d for 'Boot-time system configuration/initialization
> > script'
> >
> > rc2.d - rc5.d are multiuser
> >
> > default runlevel is rc2.d
>
> I'd file a bug against the upstream Debian hal package:
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/hal
>
> hal-trinity is just a metapackage that requires hal as you are aware, so
> the issue with HAL not starting is not a TDE-specific problem.
>
> That being said, be advised that HAL is deprecated and may not be included
> for much longer.  If possible, please try the new kpowersave-nohal
> application and report any bugs you experience when using it so that the
> HAL-->udev transition will go more smoothly in the future.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim

Thanks for the info.  

 I will wait for kpowersave-nohal to enter the repo, then test it.


-- 
Peace,

Greg