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stiffy420

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Registered: 2009-12-11

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acpi-eeepc-generic install guide

Hey!

Im trying to install acpi-eeepc-generic, but i dont understand a thing. is there a simple guide how to do it?

MadTux

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Re: acpi-eeepc-generic install guide

You should provide some information about what you have already tried and where the problem is or what is not working. If you follow a particular guide, then give some information about it.

jasonwryan

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Re: acpi-eeepc-generic install guide

The configuration file (acpi-eeepc-generic.conf) is well annotated: read through it and uncomment/comment the options that best suit your setup. If you have specific questions, post them.

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stiffy420

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Re: acpi-eeepc-generic install guide

okey. first of i type the command: yaourt -Sy acpi-eeepc-generic
then it ask me if i want to edit the PKGBUILD. i type Y for yes and use the editor nano.

and then i dont know what to do. should i copy some of the command from that file into a terminal to install certain things or what.

im totally new at arch by the way.

jasonwryan

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Re: acpi-eeepc-generic install guide

OK. Yaourt is exposing the process of installing a package for you.

For this package, you should be fine just accepting the options as it goes. Once you have said looked at the PKGBUILD close out of nano and yaourt will ask you if you want to proceed. This will happen again with the install file. You'll be asked for your password before it finally installs the package.

Once it is installed, make the changes to the conf file

# nano etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf

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Bucephalus

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Re: acpi-eeepc-generic install guide

I'm trying to adapt the pkg for gentoo. I went through PKGBUILD and ran the commands by hand, edited acpi-eeepc-generic.conf and restarted acpid. Then I tried to toggle the wifi. It went off but I couldn't turn it back on. cat /proc/net/wireless comes up empty. But the blue LED goes off and on. here's the last 50 lines of /var/log/messages http://dpaste.com/142299/  Sorta ambiguous. But the proper modules *are* installed. Hope someone's still reading this.