Hi,
I have Mandrake 10 Community on a hp pavilion ze4600: Athlon Mobile processor.

My basic question: How do I enable the power saving features. It is running at full performance (fan always blowing etc) instead and I do not see the KDE laptop feature. I thought the new kernel it uses was supposed to fix all this or do I have to edit the kernel. If that's the case Mandrake is a step back. With SuSE 9.0 I got on boot the laptop power saving features 1st time.
Enabling ACPI in Lilo gives me a blank screen on reboot making it unable to start Mandrake. I also installed the 2 acpi rpms.

All looks nice though laptop sounds like its ready to blow-up.

Thanks for any ideas.



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I have the same problem on a Dell inspiron 5100. Except my fan is always set to "low", at least it sounds like it, which could be potentially hazardous.

Mandrake control senter says ACPI is running in the services menu.
I also have lEnable ACPI checked in the bootloader menu.

But, It is not in the system tray and is not controlling my fans properly.

Plus I'd like to be able to see how much battery life i have left.

This worked flawless in 9.2, why would it change|?

you can check out cpu throttelling

No acpi in 9.2 (maybe cos I didnt try the patch), but definately no acpi in 10.0 tried everything all night, plus no touchpad in 10.0 either. I noticed quite a few bugs in this release around the Control Center.


samsung X15 here.

Maybe the Official release will solve things out.

It's the same story every time I try Mandrake.
I need something that will work on a laptop that installs well for my clients. Just to show them how easy Linux is.
SuSE so far works flawlessly on the laptop with the exception of the graphics running slower than in Mandrake 10. I suppose the next SuSE will be a Windows killer.
Lastly Slackware, is my second choice. Because I can get everything to work though it takes a little time.
I'll probably remove Mandrake if this power thing is not solved. I don't want to meltdown my processor. A friend remarked how it sounds like a steel worker's machine (lol)!

I've ACPI running on a Dell Latitude CPi (PII 266 Mhz) w/ mandrake 10 Community. I just enabled ACPI in the boot-section of Mandrake Control Centre and disabled APM in the 'services section'

I only have another problem with ACPI: Suspend (to RAM) and Sleep work like a charm, but my HD keeps rotating when i'm working on my laptop on battery-use. Using APM the HD stopped running after about 5 minutes idle. Is it possible to archieve this with ACPI??? Or usinig ACPI and APM simultaniously?

Using this machine during college with no powerplug around (what makes 6 hrs on 2 batteries only ) a little powersaving would be nice

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Encountered some Control-centre bugs here as well. And no more 'tapping' on the trackpad for 'clicking'...
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Touchpaddriver for synaptics-Touchpad as in most notebooks (Dell f.ex.) http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

There's a synaptics-Package in mandrake's contrib-tree, but you have to add evdev into /etc/modprobe.preload and load synaptics + an own section into XF86Config-4.

The work on it, the odds are good it will be included in 10.1

I think their standard kernels 2.6.x do not support apm any longer.
or is this just valid for desktops?

Probably you need kacpi to get the battery-load-icon/info.
Check acpid as well.

On the laptop I'm working with (latitude) I have everything installed and accessible but with apm as acpi I got
either white screen in suspend and black on resume
or a problem with mysqld which is reported not to be stopped
or (if mysql stopped manually before) just a screen full of terminal output, looks like acpi commands / logs but this remains or the KDE screen is reappearing.

On the desktop pc I do not have any energy-control feature accessible but started acpi and acpid and having the proprietary nvidia-drivers for my board successfully installed.
H.E.L.P.

Another question mark: why are such features regulated on KDE-Basis instead of globally through drakconf?