Hello All: As you may know there have been some bugs that end up to be reported against klaptopdaemon(3.5.9), IMO the main one is this: [1] which derived in [2] that in turns come from [3].
In summary, klaptopdaemon rely on some methods to check ac presence and battery status which have been deprecated on 2.6.25+ Debian GNU/Linux Kernels. This problem is specific to GNU/Linux kernels, so kfreebsd should still work (confirmation appreciated). AFAIK, GNU/Hurd is not supported by klaptopdaemon. The problem is exactly that latest Debian GNU/Linux kernels are build without the option: ACPI_PROCFS_POWER which provided the battery and ac interfaces on /proc/acpi/{ac,BAT} on what klaptopdaemon relied on. In order to fix klaptopdaemon, the ACPI_PROCFS_POWER option should be reenable, which is not likely [3] or klaptopdaemon should be intrusively patched. No need to remind that KDE3 development is stalled, so we can't wait upstream commit such an important change. Well, TBH maybe the changes are not that difficult to implement. Most of the code involved is in the portable.cpp source file, but IMHO testing such a case being the release so close is not advisable. Thus I think klaptopdaemon is unfixable for lenny and and alternative path should be evaluated. I think we should go for kpowersave as a klaptopdaemon substitute. Since I'm not myself a kpowersave user I can't tell how stable it is and what inconveniences could it bring for lenny. I'm just build a testing kernel and I'll use kpowersave from now on, testing it as thoroughfully I can. I hope to bring more feedback soon. Needless to say that any comments/experiences are wellcome. Regards, [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480707 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480855 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463253 -- Raúl Sánchez Siles ----->Proud Debian user<----- Linux registered user #416098
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