Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 15:58:33 schrieb Felmon Davis:
> 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.

that was here only with vanished sources.list entrys for trinity.

> 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...?)

I suppose, it must be something else.

> 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.

does it at least show the battery status ?
(it should, of course).

Werner