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#1 2007-07-28 11:01:08

D-a-a-n
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Registered: 2007-07-28
Posts: 6

Power managament / Graphical Login Manager / ...

Hi all,

I'm new to arch, coming from ubuntu (which is a noob distro compared to this smile ).
I have several questions:

I'm running arch (with fluxbox)  on a laptop and I wanted to place a wmpower  thingy in my slit.
Install was succesfull but when I ran the program, I got a message:

Cpu frequency scaling is not available
No power management subsystem detected
wmpower: No power management support...

I searched forums, installed acpi (pacman -s acpi ), put acpid in my daemon list but when I ran wmpower again cpu frequency is available but I still get this error.

No power management subsystem detected
wmpower: No power management support...

What else should I install?

Other question:

How can I install a graphical login manager, and when I'm logged in,  fluxbox must start ( startx has to be executed automatically).

Last question: Which file manager should I use, I find rox a bit simple imo, and konqueror is to much for me smile

Thx in advance

Greetz Daan

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#2 2007-07-28 12:34:23

Misfit138
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From: USA
Registered: 2006-11-27
Posts: 4,189

Re: Power managament / Graphical Login Manager / ...

As for your graphical login, install a graphical login manager, like KDM, GDM or SLiM.
Wiki entry for SLiM: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLIM
smile

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#3 2007-07-28 16:31:31

nikron
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Registered: 2007-05-15
Posts: 130

Re: Power managament / Graphical Login Manager / ...

You want the program called 'powersave'

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#4 2007-07-28 17:12:41

wuischke
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From: Suisse Romande
Registered: 2007-01-06
Posts: 630

Re: Power managament / Graphical Login Manager / ...

Hi Daan,

Please see the wiki page regarding SpeedStep: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SpeedStep
There are links for AMD based systems on this page as well, but only the necessary modules differ from this explanation.

Briefly: Load the correct modules (add them to the modules array in /etc/rc.conf) for your CPU and install (and add it to the daemon section in /etc/rc.conf) cpufreq/another daemon to administer frequency scaling.

nice regards

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