Power Management problems

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 16 February 2009 19:50:00 Nathan England wrote:
> I have been running kernel 2.6.24.7 but I upgraded my processor and the
> thermal sensors changed, so I was forced to upgrade to 2.6.28.4. Everything
> is working now, even things that did not before, but powermanagement in kde
> is awful now!

Well, might be a kernel/bios issue... For instance I'm forced to stay on the 
2.6.24 serie otherwise I get the same problems than you. And believe me if I 
could fix it in KDE it'd be done already. ;-)

> The battery plasmoid nolonger notifies me of being ac powered or not, if I
> unplug the power none of the settings change.

Out of curiosity which computer is that? It sounds a whole lot like the 
behavior I get if I run a post-2.6.24 kernel.

> What do systems to the power management features rely on? I would like to
> make sure I have everything in my kernel that needs to be there, or that
> something hasn't changed...?

Well, we're basically using information reported by HAL these days. So 
checking how HAL is behaving using lshal is probably a good start (to make 
sure it's not something in solid which is misbehaving, but with what you 
describe I seriously doubt that the problem is on our side).

Regards.

PS: Isn't it more something for bugs.kde.org or a user support mailing list? 
Doesn't look like a kde-core-devel topic to me. :-)
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
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Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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