hal does not support power manager was gnome start-up issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:22 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com> (from Wed, 10 Jan 2007  
> 06:41:07 -0500):
> 
> >
> > When I start x/gnome I get the messages:
> > gnome-power-manager: either dbus or hal are not working!
> > gnome-power-manger: HAL does not support your power management!
> >
> > Is this a known issue?  It also seems to stop the desktop startup.
> 
> I don't know about your question, but to add some data to this: I  
> noticed after an update of my laptop (around christmas I think) that  
> the frequency isn't tuned down anymore when idle. When I manually tune  
> it down with the applet it raises withhin some seconds and then stays  
> at the fastest frequency (until I lower it manually again). I also  
> noticed that in the beginning (after reboot) it works as expected, but  
> after some minutes (less than 10 in front of the desktop I think) this  
> behavior starts.
> 
> I didn't look into this issue yet. Do I have to disable powerd and  
> gnome is doing it instead or is this some kind of bug related to  
> $subject?

No.  I use powerd and hal, and I have no problems with frequency tuning.
If your frequency is not being tuned down, something must be running the
CPU up.

Joe

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