[ltp] Laptop-Config in KDE 3.4 with T43 and Gentoo

[JP Renaud]

> Date Wednesday 22 February 2006 14:16 
> Author: Daniel Baule
> i am new in using Linux on my Thinkpad T43 2669 W64. Could anyone
> help me in getting acpi,radon and suspend started. What packages do i
> need?

hi Daniel,

i don't have time for a detailed answer but here are some pointers which 
should get you started (remember google and the gentoo-forums are your 
friends).

1. emerge sys-kernel/suspend2-sources to get suspend to disk working. it 
contains the suspend2 patches on top of the gentoo patched sources.

2. patch the kernel source with the radeon powerdrain patch available on 
thinkwiki [1]. this is if you have a radeon chipset of course.

3. emerge sys-power/hibernate-script to be able to suspend to disk via 
suspend2. the configuration is stored in /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf

4. i also use the hibernate script for suspend to ram with a custom 
file /etc/hibernate/hibernate-ram.conf

5. use an ACPI event script from thinkwiki [1] and customize it so that 
"hibernate" is called for the suspend to disk event and "hibernate 
-F /etc/hibernate/hibernate-ram.conf" for the slepp/lid events.

> I want to have somethin to display my current cpufrq, battery
> lifetime and temperature in kde.
> i emerged cpufreqd and configured it and emerged klaptopdaemon but
> dunno how to start it.

klaptopdaemon should be enabled in the control centre kontrol afaik. the 
ksysguard applet can also show this information but is not very pretty. 
i personally use app-laptop/kthinkbat [2] and kde-misc/cpuinfo [3]

[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org
[2] https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat
[3] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=33257

i hope this helps.

-- 
JP Renaud
Bristol, UK