Bug#361198: Solved (probably)

[dwks at theprogrammingsite.com]

I had this same problem recently, whilst installing Etch onto an AMD64 laptop. I installed hal and hal-device-manager 0.5.8.1-9, and gnome-power-manager 2.14.3-3+b.

The solution is to install the package hal-device-manager. hal (which gnome-power-manager itself depends on) _suggests_ hal-device-manager, but gnome-power-manager depends on it to function.

The dependency list for gnome-power-manager should be changed to reflect  this IMO.

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