KDE 4.6 beta2 power management

[Lukáš Tinkl]

Dne Čt 9. prosince 2010 15:32:48 Martin Kho napsal(a):
> On Thursday 09 December 2010 15:18:38 Martin Kho wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 December 2010 15:07:26 Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> > > Dne Čt 9. prosince 2010 14:42:02 Martin Kho napsal(a):
> > > > On Thursday 09 December 2010 13:20:44 Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday, December 09, 2010 10:20:16 am José Matos wrote:
> > > > > > On 12/08/2010 05:05 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > > > > > Count yourself lucky :)
> > > > > > > With 4.6 the display on two of my workstation simple
> > > > > > > refuses
> > > > > > > to
> > > > > > > dim-out... (I've yet to file a bug report about it)
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > - Gilboa
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Same here in my laptop. Initially I noticed that it was too
> > > > > > bright and changing either with the keys or with the sliding
> > > > > > rule in powerdevil does not change the outcome.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Initially I suspected the kernel but after trying the last
> > > > > > kernel I
> > > > > > have the same result so it seems that beta2 is the culprit.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Looks like xbacklight is working. I talked to Lukas - he said he
> > > > > had
> > > > > not changed anything in the code but there were some changes by
> > > > > others... It's under inspection right now :)
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > When I log in into FC15 I get the message: "KDE Power Management
> > > > System
> > > > init failed!" The message is much longer but it's gone before I
> > > > could
> > > > read it :-) It's says something about a module that can't be
> > > > found/loaded. The suggestion is to reinstall the packages.
> > > > 
> > > > Hope this can help.
> > > > 
> > > > Martin Kho
> > > 
> > > Just a question, do you have upower installed? (rpm -q upower)
> > 
> > yes, upower-0.9.7-1.fc15.x86_64
> 
> I've enabled some extra debugging (kdebugdialog):
> 
> When I try to edit and save some settings in Systemsettings -> Power
> Management -> Power Profiles I get:
> 
> "systemsettings(9106) EditPage::save: Invalid reply from daemon when asking
> for current profile! "
> 
> When opening Systemsettings -> Power Management:
> 
> "systemsettings(9106)/kutils (KCModuleProxy)
> KCModuleProxyPrivate::loadModule: Module not already loaded, loading
> module  "Global settings"  from library "kcm_powerdevilglobalconfig" 
> using symbol  "kcm_powerdevilglobalconfig""
> 
> Martin Kho
> 

There were some fixes in PowerDevil after beta2, please try again with the 
next beta :) 

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Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
KDE developer <lukas at kde.org>
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