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