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.

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...?)

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.

the new ssd card is cool though. makes a difference I hadn't noticed 
on my netbook, the laptop has more and faster cpus.

F.

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Felmon Davis

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