the i8kutils are useful for dell laptops, and there is a i8kmon utility which when run as a deamon will auto-manage the fan speeds on such laptops. It would be very nice if an init script (example provided) would be added to the ebuild so any user can have there system setup to have the fans work as they should automatically :) This script seems to work pretty nicely, but i like to go with "official" ones ;) proxy ----------cut---------- #!/sbin/runscript depend() { need localmount } checkconfig() { if [ ! -e /proc/i8k ] ; then eerror "i8k support has not been compiled into the kernel" return 1 fi } start() { checkconfig || return 1 ebegin "Starting i8kd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/i8k.pid --exec /usr/bin/i8kmon -- -d eend $? } stop() { ebegin "Stopping i8kd" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/i8k.pid eend $? } ----------end cut---------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I don't trust the i8k to manage my fans, however, it does a sweet job of assiging my buttons to control volume. Here is my shot at an init script to set this up. It requires aumix. start() { ebegin "Starting i8kbuttons" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/i8kbuttons.pid -b \ --startas /usr/bin/i8kbuttons -- -u 'aumix -v +4' -d 'aumix -v -4' eend $? } stop() { ebegin "Stopping i8kbuttons" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/i8kbuttons.pid eend $? }
Created attachment 11484 [details] init script and config file supporting i8kbuttons and i8kmon The attached script and config file supports both i8kbuttons and i8kmon. Either one can be disabled from the config file. Sample configuration values are given for use with ALSA (my configuration) and aumix (copied from chadh's post). I have tested this on a Dell Latitude C400 running Gentoo 1.4_rc4.
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The init script and config file don't appear if I install i8kutils_1.17: $qpkg -l i8kutils app-laptop/i8kutils-1.17 * CONTENTS: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/i8kbuttons /usr/bin/i8kctl /usr/bin/i8kfan -> /usr/bin/i8kctl 1092821608 /usr/bin/i8kmon /usr/share /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/i8kbuttons.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/i8kctl.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/i8kmon.1.gz /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17 /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/examples /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/examples/40custom_load-xmodmap.gz /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/examples/i8k.def.gz /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/examples/setmixer.sh.gz /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/examples/Xmodmap.gz /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/README.i8kutils.gz /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.17/i8kmon.conf.gz Why not are they included?
