Sometimes my laptop overheats, because fan does not start. Restarting the kicker by the command: dcop kicker kicker restart results in the fan starting up. Also, sometimes fan keeps running even when the cpu is not hot at all (as one can infer by the temperature of the air flowing out). As the kicker is restarted as before, fan comes to rest. Any hints about how the two devices are related? Inspecting the .xsession-errors file, i have noticed a series of messages that might be related to the above observations. Here is one of them: kicker: error in libhal_device_get_property_type:org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty, No property battery.charge_level.last_full on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_C172 Any ideas? thank you for your help -- Pol ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.