Looks like a fresh/clean F-10/kde-4.2.0 panel includes both guidance-power-manager and powerdevil, for F-9/F-10 this should at least stay with guidance (only)... for F11+ we will probably want powerdevil. Looks like the battery-applet patch from 4.1 got lost and/or needs porting.
My netbook has a very recent F10 clean install, updated to 4.2. Only Guidance appears on my panel.
A fresh F10 + kde-redhat (4.2) install on a desktop pc, guidance didn't start with the message: "guidance-power-manager(16477): Communication problem with "guidance-power-manager" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " Guidance-power-manager removed. Powerdevil is active but seems to be not working very well. Screen will not blank (DPMS). Battary-applet does not show mouse battery status. Powerdevil did find 1 battery. lshal: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c50e_noserial' battery.charge_level.current = 5 (0x5) (int) battery.charge_level.design = 7 (0x7) (int) battery.charge_level.last_full = 7 (0x7) (int) battery.charge_level.percentage = 71 (0x47) (int) battery.command_interface = 'csr' (string) battery.csr.has_res = false (bool) battery.csr.has_sms = false (bool) battery.csr.is_dual = false (bool) battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool) battery.present = true (bool) battery.type = 'mouse' (string) info.addons = {'hald-addon-usb-csr'} (string list) info.bus = 'usb_device' (string) info.capabilities = {'battery'} (string list) info.category = 'battery' (string) info.linux.driver = 'usb' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_1_0000_00_1d_0' (string) info.product = 'MX1000 Laser Mouse' (string) info.subsystem = 'usb_device' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c50e_noserial' (string) info.vendor = 'Logitech, Inc.' (string) linux.device_file = '/dev/bus/usb/005/002' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int) linux.subsystem = 'usb' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1' (string)
>Looks like the battery-applet patch from 4.1 got lost and/or needs porting. yes, it's fixing it. It will be included in next build
Rex, could you please try kdebase-workspace-4.2.0-2? thanks
After update to 4.2.0 from kde-redhat I have both but interesting thing is - Guidance is showing correctly one battery, Power devil doesn't. Than: I'll try it
kdebase-workspace-4.2.0-2 confirmed good.
Rex: With latest testing packages from kde-redhat on FC10 and Guidance uninstalled, PowerDevil works nicely for me.
Fixed in the latest 4.2 testing update, 4.1 not affected, closing.