Re: FC19 and powerdevil

John Horne <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.general
Organization Plymouth University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 11:30 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> After some googling, I still haven't found any documentation whatever on
> something called powerdevil. I've a user that's running FC 19 - I upgraded
> him from fc17 a month or so ago - and it's frequently, copiously
> complaining in the logs about
> 
> <snip>/etc/gdm/Xsession[7938]: kded(8127)
> PowerDevilUPowerBackend::setBrightness:
> org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.setbrightness failed
> 
> and
> 
> <snip> dbus-daemon[298]: no kernel backlight interface found
> 
> This is on a bloody desktop with a normal flatscreen monitor. How do I
> turn the stupid thing off, so it shuts up?
> 
Hello,

Like you I upgraded from F17 to F19 a month or so ago (still have a
couple of problems to sort out too!)

'powerdevil' seems to be part of the 'kde-workspace' package.
Online docs for it seem to be here: http://userbase.kde.org/Power_Devil

As it says, go to 'System Settings->Hardware->Power Management'.
Mine has the 'display Brightness' box unchecked (not sure if that is
relevant).

I can only seem to find references to powerdevil in the systemd journal
(old entries):

==========
Aug 25 02:20:03 jhorne dbus-daemon[453]: dbus[453]: [system] Activating
service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper)
Aug 25 02:20:03 jhorne dbus[453]: [system] Activating service
name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper)
Aug 25 02:20:03 jhorne dbus-daemon[453]: no kernel backlight interface
found
Aug 25 02:20:03 jhorne dbus-daemon[453]: dbus[453]: [system]
Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper'
Aug 25 02:20:03 jhorne dbus[453]: [system] Successfully activated
service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper'
==========

Likewise I have a flat-screen monitor, but I don't see the messages you
have.



John.

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