eee-control utility for controlling Eee PC hardware -anyone get this to work?

[bigpcman]

Has anyone got the linux eee-control utility for controlling Eee PC hardware to work on tc?

http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/

Fearture list looks great!

    * ACPI support for hotkeys, LCD brightness control and hardware toggles
    * Toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, card reader, webcam, touchpad) on and off
    * Easy graphical configuration of hotkey actions
    * Better (finer granularity, more silent) fan control
    * Extended LCD brightness (brighter and darker than the default range)
    * Notifications/OSD (fully configurable)
    * Performance control (adjusts FSB and CPU voltage) for saving power and/or overclocking
    * gnome-power-manager integration for automatic performance adjustment
    * Fine-grained configuration through a configuration file (/etc/eee-control.conf)
    * Monitor for hardware sensors (fan, temperature)
    * Internationalization
    * Clean architecture
          o eee-control-daemon (low level operations, hardware abstraction, runs with root privileges)
          o eee-control-tray (GTK/GNOME GUI, configuration, OSD)
          o D-Bus for communication

[spillz]

I started a thread here on this subject:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=2396.msg12593#msg12593

eee-control is very ubuntu centric. however, the scripts contain code + info that could be used to make a "eee-support" tinycore package

note that there are also other eee support scripts/daemons such as the one provided in eeebuntu http://www.fewt.com/2009/06/eeepc-acpi-utilities-and-eeepc-tray.html and the eeeasy scripts: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=65606

    * ACPI support for hotkeys, LCD brightness control and hardware toggles
    * Toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, card reader, webcam, touchpad) on and off
    * Easy graphical configuration of hotkey actions

download the acpi/acpid packages.

    * Better (finer granularity, more silent) fan control
    * Extended LCD brightness (brighter and darker than the default range)
    * Notifications/OSD (fully configurable)

At least some of these require some kernel (or kernel module) adjustments

    * Performance control (adjusts FSB and CPU voltage) for saving power and/or overclocking

the cpufreq package will enable this: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=2259.0
not sure if its the same one used by eee-control

    * gnome-power-manager integration for automatic performance adjustment
          o eee-control-tray (GTK/GNOME GUI, configuration, OSD)

would need to abstract away the gnome dependencies

    * Monitor for hardware sensors (fan, temperature)

can use conky to monitor some stuff. tray icon would also be nice.

    * Fine-grained configuration through a configuration file (/etc/eee-control.conf)
    * Internationalization
    * Clean architecture
          o eee-control-daemon (low level operations, hardware abstraction, runs with root privileges)
          o D-Bus for communication

the daemon and config files likely contain useful model specific info that could be ported across.

[bigpcman]

Yes I saw your earlier post. I agree we need an eeepc package and more generally a netbook package. I see that there are a few packages in progress for other distro's, that's good news. Personally, I don't like having to mess around with all the individual command line utilities to get all (subset for now I guess) of the above mentioned netbook features to work. TC seems like the ideal OS for netbooks so I hope it's just a matter of time.

A control panel program would be ideal.

edit: after thinking about it some more I think it would be great to have an eeepc wiki page that provides how to information for setting up all the utilities that support eeepc netbook features.