> From: werner@hoernerfranzracing.de
> To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:07:10 +0100
> Subject: Re: [trinity-users] kdepowersave
>
> 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
>

Looks like the flaky Debian package management is doing you trouble. kpowersave requiring HAL should not be there anymore, and should be replaced by tdepowersave-trinity, which does not require HAL; HAL is of no use for R14...

-Alexandre