For some reason the CPU usage widget does not work for me. It stays the same no matter what load is placed on the CPU.

The same goes for the overal system monitor widget. Here, only hard disk usage is displayed. Network, CPU, memory is not.

What could be the problem? I remember when using Ubuntu (Gnome), I did not have this problem - similar widgets worked fine there.

Btw, when viewing the capabilities window in power management section, number of cpus is shown 0 (i've got a ). Maybe it's related. Do I need some additional software packages?

Can you please post the output of the following command?

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solid-hardware query 'IS Processor'

Also, try removing and re-adding the CPU Monitor.

If the above command doesn't return any output, please check that HAL is functional.

Yes, the quesry returns nothing. How do I check that HAL is functional? I do have hal package installed.

This command should return quite a bit of output if HAL is functional:

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qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Hal

The output should look similar to the following ( although much longer, this is just a excerpt of what the output is here )

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/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2829_scsi_host_1
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2829_scsi_host_0
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2829_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2829_scsi_host_scsi_host
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2850_scsi_host_0
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2850_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2850_scsi_host_scsi_host

Yes, I do get the output similar to yours.

Which distribution are you using? It is possible they didn't build KDE with the HAL development packages available, thus the installation built without HAL support.

I installed ksysguardd and all is fine now.

Which distribution are you using? Regardless of the distribution, please file a bug in their bug tracker, and post a link to that bug here, as the packages have broken dependencies.