Laptop ACPI Control App

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Laptop ACPI Control App
started by: Juanito

Posted by Juanito on Nov. 25 2005,12:13

Does anyone know of a ACPI compliant laptop power control application suitable for DSL?

Now that DSL 2.0 supports the ACPI modules (although I have to manually modprobe them on my machine) it would be useful to have a DockApp to be able to adjust power settings such as Speedstep, etc.

I have tried using WMThrottle but it seems to work for a while and then stops - maybe it needs recompliling to run under DSL - a myDSL version would be great (but beyond me)

Posted by Nevermore on Nov. 27 2005,22:11

i agree with juanito, a few laptop apps would be greatly appreciated.
what about synaptic? can't it be added to dsl?

Posted by importmastr on Dec. 24 2005,09:53

I would be SUPER excited if I could just get a simple monitor that would let me know how much battery I had left. If this monitor would tell the remaining battery in % I would be happy, if it told me in minutes I wouldn't know what to do with myself. But like you, this is beyond me I have spent the last month trying to get figure out ndiswrapper so I could use my NetGear WiFi adapter, only to give up and buy a Cisco Aironet 350 off of ebay, because the DSL site claimed it was supported and required little or no configuration. They were right, as long as it is plugged in at boot time it will completely autoconfigure itself. This made it possible for me to finally Winblows, and all other Microsuck software from my computers. I have managed to get everything I need from the mydsl extensions, except for a battery monitor, and kismet, although this airsnort may be an alternative to kismet.