> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Werner Joss wrote:
>
> > Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 16:51:44 schrieb Werner Joss:
> >> Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 10:40:22 schrieb Alexandre:
> >>> If I were you, I would look for replacing the kpowersave package with
> >>> something named tdepowersave, which doesn't need HAL anymore.
> >>
> >> well, of course I tried that :)
> >> but there is no tdepowersave whatsoever, only kpowersave-trinity
> >
> > additional note:
> > kpowersave does work if I start /usr/sbin/hald before manually.
> > will now try to figure out why hald is no more started automatically after the
> > dist-upgrade.
> >
> > Werner
>
> I am keen on your results. I have had this problem for months now.
>
> F.
>
> --
> Felmon Davis
>
> A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two
> watches is never sure. Proverb
>
>

Can you post a screenshot of you searching for the keyword powersave in Synaptic. It is very very unlikely that it is not there.

-ALexandre