Acpi

MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as a dedicated server. SimplyMEPIS is designed for both personal and business purposes. It includes cutting-edge features such as a live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI... Platforms: *nix

MEPISLite is for home users new to Linux; it is similar to SimplyMEPIS except that some packages have been changed to improve performance. MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as a dedicated server. MEPISLite is designed for both personal and business purposes.... Platforms: *nix

wmpower is a Window Maker dock application allowing the user to graphically see (and set) the power management status of his laptop. Points of strength: -It works ;-) -Battery status display (you chose the battery) -Both APM and ACPI kernels are supported -On ACPI kernels you get fan status and... Platforms: *nix

IBAM (Intelligent BAttery Monitor) is an advanced battery monitor for laptops, which uses statistical and adaptive linear methods to provide accurate estimations of minutes of battery left or of the time needed until full recharge. All currently available battery or apm monitors keep telling me... Platforms: *nix

FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project. FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system (mostly achieved except... Platforms: *nix

KVaio sony_acpi support is a patch for kdeutils 3.5.6 to get very hacky support for brightness selection on Sony Vaio Laptops using the sony_acpi module as well as a working eject button on VGN-TX models. Further information on sony_acpi: http://www.popies.net/sonypi/index.html. KVaio sony_acpi... Platforms: *nix

Have you ever wondered if it's possible to wake up your system from a Stand-by mode or Hibernation programmatically? The answer is yes, it's possible. This simple utility will do it for you. Once activated it resides in the system and wakes it up at predefined time, runs a file and if necessary... Platforms: Windows

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed. The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors,... Platforms: Windows

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed. The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors,... Platforms: Windows

Since 1996 PC WIZARD is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC WIZARD is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and... Platforms: Windows

PC WIZARD is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide... Platforms: Windows

pidgin-blinklight is a plugin for Pidgin that will blink your laptop's leds when you get new messages, so you can notice them even if the conversation window is not up front and you don't have or don't see the window list. To use this with an Thinkpad's ThinkLight, you need to have the ibm-acpi... Platforms: *nix

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG project is an open source 802.11a/b/g driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection. This project was created by Intel to enable support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapter. This project (IPW3945) is intended to be a community... Platforms: *nix

KToshiba is a battery and Fn-key monitoring for Toshiba laptops, but it does much more than that. KToshiba lets you configure the Fn-F# combinations with the supported options to let you have a complete and fully customizable setup for your specific model, and lets you use those special... Platforms: *nix

sleepd is a daemon to to put a laptop to sleep if it is not being used or if the battery is low. It supports HAL, APM, and ACPI, although external programs must be used to actually put the system to sleep. Platforms: *nix

wmc2d is a dockapp to monitor the coretemp temperature and cpufreq frequency. License AGPLv3: GNU Affero General Public License version 3 The name comes from the "core 2 duo", but now more cpu types are supported. This is a small dockapp, which shows the core temperature and cpu frequency from... Platforms: *nix