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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 862

[SOLVED] Battery monitor not working in KDE 4.6

I just updated my laptop to KDE 4.6 and I noticed that the battery monitor doesn't work anymore. It says "Battery not present" and is unable to control screen brightness. I removed hal and have upower and acpi installed.
Does anyone have the same issue?

Last edited by snack (2011-01-27 10:24:16)

desaparecido

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From: Liège, Belgium

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 155

Re: [SOLVED] Battery monitor not working in KDE 4.6

hi, i have the same issue too with my laptop on i686, but if I re-active HAL works again.

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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 862

Re: [SOLVED] Battery monitor not working in KDE 4.6

Uhm, maybe the battery plasmoid has not been ported to upower yet... Can anyone confirm this?

desaparecido

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From: Liège, Belgium

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 155

Re: [SOLVED] Battery monitor not working in KDE 4.6

Hi, in my case I forgoted to add DBUS in DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf , in my case I had only HAL that active DBUS so without HAL not DBUS... so after add manually dbus all works fine, my battery monitor and networkmanager.. good luck

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KF5 & Plasma5 (git versions) - Awesome WM
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX - AMD FX8350 - ATI Radeon HD 7970
[testing] repo

snack

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 862

Re: [SOLVED] Battery monitor not working in KDE 4.6

Hi, in my case I forgoted to add DBUS in DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf , in my case I had only HAL that active DBUS so without HAL not DBUS... so after add manually dbus all works fine, my battery monitor and networkmanager.. good luck

Thank you, it was the same for me. Starting dbus and then restarting KDE fixed everything. I added dbus in the daemon array, so everything should be in place now.
Marking as solved.