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

[Alexander Leidinger]

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?

Bye,
Alexander.

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