[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

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On 01/28/2012 03:26 AM, Morris wrote:

> I have a W520 too and I can share what I did for power management in KDE:
> 
> - first of all, I suggest you to install tlp [1] from aur
> - I wrote a little bash script [2] to set cpufreq's governor and lcd's
> brightness, located in /root/governor.sh
> - enabled wheel group to use it without password with the following in
> sudoers: %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SETENV: /root/governor.sh
> - in KDE's systemsettings -> power management, I enabled "run script" on
> profile load, with the following settings:
> AC profile -> "sudo /root/governor.sh ac"
> BATTERY profile -> "sudo /root/governor.sh bat"
> 

  Ok - so now the question is why is the thing not working correctly to
begin with - and how do we fix it so we don't need to fix by hand ...