[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

[Yoav Luft]

After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped
providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect
the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown
script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through
/sys/class/power/BAT1 and I can still suspend and hibernate using
pm-suspend and pm-hibernate.
I would like use KDE's frontend, though, as finding out how long the
battery can hold from reading it's voltage isn't the most comfortable
thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

[Momesso Andrea]

On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote:
> After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped
> providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect
> the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown
> script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through
> /sys/class/power/BAT1 and I can still suspend and hibernate using
> pm-suspend and pm-hibernate.
> I would like use KDE's frontend, though, as finding out how long the
> battery can hold from reading it's voltage isn't the most comfortable
> thing.

Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

[Yoav Luft]

I think it does, but how can I make sure of it?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea
<momesso.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote:
>> After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped
>> providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect
>> the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown
>> script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through
>> /sys/class/power/BAT1 and I can still suspend and hibernate using
>> pm-suspend and pm-hibernate.
>> I would like use KDE's frontend, though, as finding out how long the
>> battery can hold from reading it's voltage isn't the most comfortable
>> thing.
>
> Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does.
>
> ---
> TopperH
> http://topperh.blackmamba.kicks-ass.org
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

[erdunand]

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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:31:23PM +0300, Yoav Luft wrote:
> I think it does, but how can I make sure of it?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea
> >
> > Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does.
> >
> 

Adding the following in the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm
should do the trick:

after hald

(I don't use hal anymore so I can't check but I think it may already
be there)
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

[Momesso Andrea]

On Friday 23 April 2010 14:31:23 Yoav Luft wrote:
> I think it does, but how can I make sure of it?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea
> 
> <momesso.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote:
> >> After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped
> >> providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect
> >> the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown
> >> script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through
> >> /sys/class/power/BAT1 and I can still suspend and hibernate using
> >> pm-suspend and pm-hibernate.
> >> I would like use KDE's frontend, though, as finding out how long the
> >> battery can hold from reading it's voltage isn't the most comfortable
> >> thing.
> > 
> > Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does.


Please, don't top-post.

"/etc/init.d/hald status"  will tell you if it's working. If it isn't 
"rc-update add hald" will add it to your default runlevel.

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