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 ...