The System-monitor applet doesn't see any partitions. When I go to its settings, there are no locations to choose. The same applies to temperature monitoring - it only displays an icon, but I can't even choose which hardware I want to show.

Also, the applet doesn't display grids with percentages for CPU and RAM. I was told to make it bigger, but it didn't solve the problem.

Here's a screen of how the applet looks like: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3426/systemmonitorr.jpg

EDIT: I've installed yasp (yet another system-monitor plasmoid) and it doesn't work properly too. It doesn't display partitions, temperature, shows wrong values for memory usage, doesn't update its element as quickly as it should or at all (i.e. uptime doesn't change). The network element shows everything as "unknown". What is wrong with these applets?

I'm using Gentoo with KDE 4.3.3.

Also a gentoo user here with a similar issue. I managed to get Kde4 to display some of my disk layout but it doesn't want to play friendly with my lvm partitions.

I just get a blank /dev/sda4.

For the gentleman above, are you using unstable branch? Have you done "usermod -G plugdev user" to get hal to function properly?

Please view fstab info below:

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 / jfs noatime 0 1
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/vol-var /var jfs noatime 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-vartmp /var/tmp ext4 noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-tmp /tmp ext4 noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-usr /usr jfs noatime 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-portage /usr/portage ext4 noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-local /usr/local ext4 noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-opt /opt jfs noatime 0 2
/dev/mapper/vol-home /home jfs noatime 0 2

Could the issue be something to due with Kde4 permissions, do I need something like policykit installed?

Sorry, I don't have Gentoo anymore.

Can you check to see if HAL detects your LVM configuration?

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lshal