eee-control – Utility for controlling Eee PC hardware
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eee-control Features
* 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
Install eee-control in Ubuntu
First you need to download the .deb package from here .In this example i am downloading .deb package for jaunty
wget http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/deb/eee-control_0.9.4_all~jaunty.deb
Install .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i eee-control_0.9.4_all~jaunty.deb
This will complete the installation
the Ubuntu packages automatically enter eee-control-tray into the session startup.If you want to start
The GUI use the following command from terminal
eee-control-tray
Screenshots
Thank you!! This utility is so much better than eeepc-acpi-utils that I was using before.
is this available for other distros than Ubuntu? and for other DEs than GNOME?
KDE on Debian is what i am using on my EeePC, and i am sure there are others out there with variations as well…
Thanks a lot for that peace of software! REAL GREAT on my EeePC 1000H.
Allthough it took me a few hours to find out how to disable the asus_eee kernel module.
(For all people like me: You have to edit the file “modules” in /etc as root. Comment the line “asus_eee” with a # and save.)
From that on, the new tray applet (and all the modules behind) works like a charm!
Thanks for this tool, it looks like it’s working great on my new 1005H! I installed it with Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook edition.
Hi,
I am trying to install it under ‘Jolicloud’ NBR, which run on Jaunty. I get an error. Here’s what I get:
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lapog@790Netbook:~$ sudo dpkg -i eee-control_0.9.4_all~jaunty.deb
(Reading database … 96886 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace eee-control 0.9.4 (using eee-control_0.9.4_all~jaunty.deb) …
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Deleting module version: 20090415
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
* Stopping Eee PC hardware control eee-control-daemon [ OK ]
Cleaning up /etc/modules
Nothing to clean up
Moving ACPI scripts back into /etc/acpi/events
Restarting acpid
* Stopping ACPI services… [ OK ]
* Loading ACPI modules… [ OK ]
* Starting ACPI services… [ OK ]
Unpacking replacement eee-control …
Setting up eee-control (0.9.4) …
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/eeepc-laptop/20090415/source ->
/usr/src/eeepc-laptop-20090415
DKMS: add Completed.
Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.31-4-jolicloud cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.31-4-jolicloud/build or /lib/modules/2.6.31-4-jolicloud/source.
You can use the –kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it’s located.
ERROR: Failed building module.
dpkg: error processing eee-control (–install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
eee-control
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Wooops! I hit the ‘submit’ before I could beg for help!
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Will there be a version for Karmic as the Jaunty version does not install on my EeePC1000HE I get the following message.
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: hotkey-setup
Thanks for a great utility it worked well on Jaunty and I miss it.
So it doens’t work in Karmic?
That sucks…
I had it working for a bit when I did an upgrade, but then after it wasn’t working quite right I did a re-install… and now it wont install. Same error as Lapog.
I meant it stopped working right after the upgrade, and now it won’t “reinstall”
Try to follow this http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-eee-control-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html
Hi!
This Howto is outdated.
Where can i get the eee-ctl for Ubuntu 11.04?
Regards
I’m interested in this for Ubuntu 11.04 too!