Thanks! That link worked.

PS. I just saw http://forum.eeepc.it/viewtopic.php?id=9081 # 176 and understand that those scripts completely replace eee-control.

Last edited by gmc (2009-11-26 6:34:29 am)

danamlund wrote:

I repackaging the deb file to work with karmic.

http://danamlund.dk/eee-control/eee-control.html

As mentioned, this was done by adding and removing stuff i didn't quite understand until it seemed to work.

Hi, thanks for the package. I use it on my 901 with Ubuntu Karmic, and everything seems to work fine, except for one thing: it doesn't automatically switch to powersave when I disconnect the power supply (the option is checked in the settings menu). gnome-power-manager seems to detect the acpi event properly. Any idea?

The performance menu for me reads "performance" and "normal". How do I fix this? Btw I'm using a Eee PC 900.

hitar_potter wrote:

Hi. I have the same issue with karmic (netbook remix) and eee-control. In the performance option, powersaving is missing. I'm running on 701.

sudo gedit /etc/eee-control.conf

and customize your configuration as described here: http://forum.eeepc.it/viewtopic.php?id=7473

Briefly

[general]
; FSB control access method
; she -- use Super Hybrid Engine (default)
; she-uv -- use Super Hybrid Engine w/ additional undervolting
; i2c-dev -- use /dev/i2c-*
; direct-io -- direct I/O access
; none -- no FSB control
fsb-method: direct-io
; Use optimized fan control?
fan-control: yes

and then (also for 900)

[fsb:701]
@stepwidth: 5 
Powersave: 50 99 0
Normal: 70 99 0
Medium: 85 100 0
Performance: 100 100 1
SuperPerf.: 106 100 1

hitar_potter wrote:

etc/eee-control.conf seems to be empty for me I edited /usr/share/eee-control/eee-control.conf as you advised, then restarted. Still these modes are missing

These settings worked on jaunty. Probably, the new eee-control for karmic doesn't support cpu freq personalization...
In my 701 I have not changed anything, because I use mainly the 1000HE.
We can only hope that Marx releases an updated version of his program!

i have powersave in karmic. only mod on it is for bios 1104. i use a 1000he.

After installing eee-control and estarting, there's no sound. None of the options in the sound menu have worked. What happened?

Edit: I just uninstalled eee-control and sound works again? What is going on?

Last edited by Nixot (2009-12-07 12:59:41 pm)

Running Karmic on a 1000HA. eee-control fails with this:

geoff@Deck:~$ sudo eee-control-daemon -V
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/eee-control-daemon", line 124, in <module>
    eee_model = EeeControl.actions.EeeActions(bus, manu, model, acpi_base, brn_path, bt_path, wlan_path, hwkey_control)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py", line 169, in __init__
    self.brn_state = self.get_brightness() + 0x20
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py", line 251, in get_brightness
    brn = int(l.strip()) + 0x20
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''


geoff@Deck:~$ eee-control-tray
Error communicating with eee-control-daemon: The name org.eee.Eee was not provided by any .service files

danamlund wrote:

I've updated my repackaged eee-control so removing works.

to remove the package if you downloaded it before today you have to comment out line 16 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/eee-control.prerm

http://danamlund.dk/eee-control/eee-control.html

Work for my EeePC 1000, thx!

neither vs works on 10.04, fyi.

starwardude wrote:

Trying out eee-control, but it doesn't seem to be working right. All I see are "performance" and normal", neither of which seem to be any different.  By hovering over the tray icon I get a mesage "Error while communicating with eee-control-daemon! Make sure it is running."
Thing is, even when I  execute eee-control-daemon -V, it seems that the daemon is running and yet it still gives this message. So I tried running eee-control-tray and this is what I get...

Code:

:~$ eee-control-tray
Error communicating with eee-control-daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py", line 503, in get_camera
    def get_camera(self): return self.get_bool(os.path.join(self.acpi_base, "camera"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py", line 261, in get_bool
    l = f.readline()
IOError: [Errno 19] No such device

After that it's just blank.
Anyone able to make sense of this?

It's complaining about a missing camera. The eee-control code mentions it doesn't check for 70x models without a camera, this could be what have happened to you.

If it is, I think I've fixed it and uploaded a new version to http://danamlund.dk/eee-control/eee-control.html

as far as i know, the only ones you can edit are the ones it lets you, i went into the eee-control.conf file and it doesnt say anyting about the other keys, only the ones specified i think, if theyre even mentioned at all.

i think that ubuntu changed something in 10.04 that made both the jaunty and karmic versions of eee-control incompatible with it, if you think your up to it, you can get the tar.gz file and install everything manually.