so, well, today I also upgraded my good ols eeepc701 to r14 (from 3.5.13), not 
without some trouble (had to issue aptitude dist-upgrade several times), but 
finally, ran through and most things seem to work.
unfortunately, kdepowersave stopped working.
whien started from the cli, I get this:

kpowersave --force-acpi-check
kpowersave: WARNING: Acquire org.freedesktop.Policy.Power interface failed 
with error: Connection ":1.13" is not allowed to own the 
service "org.freedesktop.Policy.Power" due to security policies in the 
configuration file
kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later...
kpowersave: ERROR: Can't connect to HAL
kpowersave: ERROR: Could not connect to HAL
kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later...
kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later...
kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later...
kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later...
kpowersave: WARNING: HAL is not ready. We will try later...
kpowersave: ERROR: This machine does not support ACPI, APM, PMU, CPUFreq, 
Suspend2Disk nor Suspend2RAM. Please close KPowersave now.
ERROR: Communication problem with kpowersave, it probably crashed.

so, seems to be related to hal.
anyone got an idea how to fix this (OS is debian wheezy).

Werner