Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: bigpcman on August 12, 2009, 10:13:38 AM
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Has anyone got the linux eee-control utility for controlling Eee PC hardware to work on tc?
http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/ (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
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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.
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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.