Eee PC ACPI Utilities / Eeebuntu model support thread

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:00 am

About time you stop dicking around and make a little tray.
Ya, that icon is terrible. I saw you had a cooler-looking one in svn. It had three horizontal lines with the middle line shorter than the top or bottom one making an E shape.
Everything seems to be in working order.
I'm sure people will be wanting to see fan speed.
Icons for the Left-click menu like you have for the Right-click menu would be nice.
Running as process "cli" and taking 4.8 MB. ... 6.8 MB now.

fewt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:07 am

TRiPgod wrote:

About time you stop dicking around and make a little tray.
Ya, that icon is terrible. I saw you had a cooler-looking one in svn. It had three horizontal lines with the middle line shorter than the top or bottom one making an E shape.
Everything seems to be in working order.
I'm sure people will be wanting to see fan speed.
Icons for the Left-click menu like you have for the Right-click menu would be nice.
Running as process "cli" and taking 4.8 MB. ... 6.8 MB now.

That icon was pretty neat, I actually spent an hour or so on that one. 5 minutes on the version in 0.1, and about 15 on the one in 0.11. Check the new one and tell me what you think. :-D

I'll add those extras, it all makes sense to me. I was already scheming on the icons for the left click menu. It seemed like a good opportunity to learn Gtk#! :-D

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:41 am

fewt wrote:

That icon was pretty neat, I actually spent an hour or so on that one. 5 minutes on the version in 0.1, and about 15 on the one in 0.11. Check the new one and tell me what you think. :-D

By "new one" you mean the one that's packaged with eeepc-tray ?? I overwrote it with the one I attached a couple posts up. It's simple and sleek. The one that was packaged, well, you can only make text so small and still be legible.

oh you must mean these ??

fewt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:23 am

TRiPgod wrote:

fewt wrote:

That icon was pretty neat, I actually spent an hour or so on that one. 5 minutes on the version in 0.1, and about 15 on the one in 0.11. Check the new one and tell me what you think. :-D

By "new one" you mean the one that's packaged with eeepc-tray ?? I overwrote it with the one I attached a couple posts up. It's simple and sleek. The one that was packaged, well, you can only make text so small and still be legible.

oh you must mean these ??

Yep. I think I may remove the text from the top one, it should look like an Eee. I really don't like the bottom icon; stole that from a Windows app I wrote a few years ago and pasted text over it.

luigidk · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:08 pm

Trying to install eeepc-tray (sudo apt-get install eeepc-tray)

Getting this error:
sudo apt-get install eeepc-tray
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package eeepc-tray

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:26 pm

luigidk wrote:

Trying to install eeepc-tray (sudo apt-get install eeepc-tray)

Getting this error:
sudo apt-get install eeepc-tray
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package eeepc-tray

Now why do you think that is, luigidk ?? Try updating your repo. You should always apt-get update before you upgrade or install.

fewt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:59 pm

TRiPgod wrote:

About time you stop dicking around and make a little tray.
Ya, that icon is terrible. I saw you had a cooler-looking one in svn. It had three horizontal lines with the middle line shorter than the top or bottom one making an E shape.
Everything seems to be in working order.
I'm sure people will be wanting to see fan speed.
Icons for the Left-click menu like you have for the Right-click menu would be nice.
Running as process "cli" and taking 4.8 MB. ... 6.8 MB now.

I think the icon in 0.13 is ok, I pulled all the text out of it. Icons in the left click menu are there, and the fan speed and temp are in the notification. :-D

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:59 pm

fewt wrote:

I think the icon in 0.13 is ok, I pulled all the text out of it. Icons in the left click menu are there, and the fan speed and temp are in the notification. :-D

Ya, I like how you put that info to display when you mouse hover over the tray. Does it pull the fan speed and temperature as soon as you hover over or does it automatically update every so often ?? Icons for performance settings not bad. I still really like the E tray icon, but I guess you have your heart set on this blue computer monitor.

fewt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:18 pm

TRiPgod wrote:

fewt wrote:

I think the icon in 0.13 is ok, I pulled all the text out of it. Icons in the left click menu are there, and the fan speed and temp are in the notification. :-D

Ya, I like how you put that info to display when you mouse hover over the tray. Does it pull the fan speed and temperature as soon as you hover over or does it automatically update every so often ?? Icons for performance settings not bad. I still really like the E tray icon, but I guess you have your heart set on this blue computer monitor.

I'm not 100% sold on it, but it's the most "gnome-ish". I'm going to play with refactoring the E because I do like the E itself, but the colors need work. Before the end of the dev cycle I'll probably have 5 or so icons and set up a poll. :-D

The notification data updates on a timer every 1.5 seconds, but you have to shake the mouse over it for it to update. I'm still trying to figure out how to update it without moving the mouse.

luigidk · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:42 pm

TRiPgod,

Thanks for the tip on running an apt-get update first.

I was not aware I needed to do that.

I'll remember going forward - but I'm sure I'll have many more opportunities to be stupid in the near future.

fewt · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:26 am

TRiPgod wrote:

fewt wrote:

I think the icon in 0.13 is ok, I pulled all the text out of it. Icons in the left click menu are there, and the fan speed and temp are in the notification. :-D

Ya, I like how you put that info to display when you mouse hover over the tray. Does it pull the fan speed and temperature as soon as you hover over or does it automatically update every so often ?? Icons for performance settings not bad. I still really like the E tray icon, but I guess you have your heart set on this blue computer monitor.

What do you think of this one? It looks like its visible under all of the default desktop themes.

I'm open to icon submissions from users too. :-D

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:14 am

The grey blends in too much with the default background of the panel in eeebuntu. Black and blue maybe

fewt · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:19 am

TRiPgod wrote:

The grey blends in too much with the default background of the panel in eeebuntu. Black and blue maybe

The problem with Black is that it blends in completely with Human-netbook. Hmm.. I'll play with it some more.

platojones · **Joined:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:52 am **Posts:** 27

fewt wrote:

Announcing EeePC Tray 0.1 - No promise of stability, seeking testers!

Sits in your panel and does stuff when you click it. CPU controls are left click, device management under right click.

Code:

sudo apt-get install eeepc-tray

Please give feedback! I know the icon sucks, working on that.

Feedback?...awesome! Just what eeepc-acpi-utilities needed. BTW, I'm using the 1.0.25 version of eeepc-acpi-utilities for about a week now...no issues.

nanos · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:10 pm

Hi there!

I just tried to install eee pc acpi uitlities but couldn't do so.

This is the full scenario:

I added the statux repo and updated the package-list. then I tried to install eeepc-acpi-utilities:

Code:

thomic@MyEEEPc:~$ sudo apt-get install eeepc-acpi-utilities
[sudo] password for thomic: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cpufrequtils libcpufreq0 libnotify-bin
Suggested packages:
  eeepc-tray linux-image-eeepc-lean eeepc-acpi-dkms
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cpufrequtils eeepc-acpi-utilities libcpufreq0 libnotify-bin
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 88.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 651kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe libcpufreq0 002-7.2 [12.4kB]
Get:2 http://www.statux.org intrepid/main eeepc-acpi-utilities 1.0.26 [29.0kB]
Get:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe cpufrequtils 002-7.2 [27.4kB]
Get:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe libnotify-bin 0.4.4-3build1 [19.6kB]
Fetched 88.5kB in 9s (9671B/s)                                                 
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package libcpufreq0.
(Reading database ... 82673 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcpufreq0 (from .../libcpufreq0_002-7.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package cpufrequtils.
Unpacking cpufrequtils (from .../cpufrequtils_002-7.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libnotify-bin.
Unpacking libnotify-bin (from .../libnotify-bin_0.4.4-3build1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package eeepc-acpi-utilities.
Unpacking eeepc-acpi-utilities (from .../eeepc-acpi-utilities_1.0.26_i386.deb) ...
 * Stopping ACPI services...                                             [ OK ] 
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libcpufreq0 (002-7.2) ...

Setting up cpufrequtils (002-7.2) ...
 * CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...                       * disabled, governor not available...                                   [ OK ] 

Setting up libnotify-bin (0.4.4-3build1) ...
Setting up eeepc-acpi-utilities (1.0.26) ...
Creating extra directories
Adding EeeUser group
Adding users to eeeuser group: thomic 
Adding eeeuser to sudoers
Setting permissions..
Verifying startup links
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/eeepc-restore ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20eeepc-restore -> ../init.d/eeepc-restore
   /etc/rc1.d/K20eeepc-restore -> ../init.d/eeepc-restore
   /etc/rc6.d/K20eeepc-restore -> ../init.d/eeepc-restore
   /etc/rc2.d/S20eeepc-restore -> ../init.d/eeepc-restore
   /etc/rc3.d/S20eeepc-restore -> ../init.d/eeepc-restore
   /etc/rc4.d/S20eeepc-restore -> ../init.d/eeepc-restore
Restarting ACPID
 * Stopping ACPI services...                                             [ OK ] 
 * Loading ACPI modules...                                               [ OK ] 
 * Starting ACPI services...                                             [ OK ] 
Restarting CRON
 * Restarting periodic command scheduler crond                           [ OK ] 
Starting EeePC ACPI
/etc/init.d/eeepc-restore: line 34: /var/eeepc/default_fsb: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing eeepc-acpi-utilities (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 eeepc-acpi-utilities
E: Directory '/var/log/apt/' missing
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help?

thanks in advance!

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