For what it's worth, I had the same problem and also had to go through the same process of patching before deciding to file a bug for the same reason. The current order doesn't make sense to me either..
tarek : ) -- HAL should not try to use powermanagement-interface first but last https://launchpad.net/bugs/90425 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
