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I don't have a concrete answer for you, but I have both installed and both seem to be working as they are supposed to and not interfering with one another. :whistle:

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

I have 3 questions:

 

1)The ACPICPUThrottle v1.01 works well I think, but when I work without power supply (only with batteries) the laptop work slow, and sound works bad. And when I plug power supply again, I work slow until restart (with power supply, of course).

 

2)I use the autostart version, Can I use the GUI to config the application? Where is the GUI? I have the three files.

 

I need the two features: CPU change speed and precise battery metter, and for this I installed both.

 

Thank you.

 

Greetings.

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The update by default replaces the PowerManagement.bundle with the standard one. What I have gotten used to doing is copying the patched bundle to my desktop before updating then recopying it over after an update. The patched bundle works fine with 10.4.7.

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First of all, thanks for you're efforts. It's seems that you've already helped to a lot of people.

My english wasn't so good but i'll try to explain what happened to my laptop.

I have the laptop described on my signature with OSX 10.4.7. I have tried to get ACPI because of the noise of the fans and i have downloaded from this forum and installed three things:

- ACPICPUThrottle_v1.02_autostart.tar

- PowerManagement.tar

- BatteryTimeRemaining.c

 

Now, i have the battery icon at the top of my bar, but i still heard the sound of the fans all the time and my battery will die in less than an hour. I wonder if you please could help me to solve this and make my Apple's transition even more delicious.

 

I send here one of the outputs that i've seen on the posts (for my machine, of course):

 

panchito:~ alcapone$ sysctl -a | grep

hw.cpukern.exec: unknown type returned

hw.cpufrequency = 1067000000

hw.cputype: 7

hw.cpusubtype: 4

hw.cpufrequency: 1067000000

hw.cpufrequency_min: 1067000000

hw.cpufrequency_max: 1600000000

panchito:~ alcapone$

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well everything worked for me just fine. I loved having the icon availible again making it easy to change my settings at will. Is the DVD problem ever going to be addressed? If not then I won't be able to use it, I have to have my DVD capability. Has anyone found a fix?

 

I would post my log files, but they look just like the others people have posted with this problem, no need to repost them.

 

Thanks for you hard work, you did a fantastic job with this project.

 

HP Pavilion zd8230us

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Please excuse me if my question has already been answered but I was wondering wether this bundle - being ACPI related - could help me to turn off properly my Hackintosh which is build on an Asrock 775Dual-915GL mobo.

It seems ACPI isn't handled as it should be in this case, because plugged USB devices prevent OS X to fully shutdown.

Thx for advices.

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Working on Gateway M280 tablet pc, running JaS OSx86 10.4.7. Thanks a lot for this great release. This time it does provide up-to-date information on my power status.

 

The only problem I am having is that the insomnia method stopped to work. I am not sure if it happened after I installed this bundle or the 10.4.7 update, but if anyone here knows how to get this working again, please let me know. I am using the insomnia.zip method on the /Library/StartupItems and it did work for me before. Now it does not, so any advice is welcome.

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Hi,

 

since I´ve updated to 10.4.7 my Powermanagement didn´t work too. With 10.4.6 it was working...

 

x50:~ habib$ sysctl -a | grep hw.cpu

kern.exec: unknown type returned

hw.cpufrequency = 2130000000

hw.cputype: 7

hw.cpusubtype: 4

hw.cpufrequency: 2130000000

hw.cpufrequency_min: 2130000000

hw.cpufrequency_max: 2130000000

 

 

 

Habib

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:D:):D

 

I have a Compaq X1000 laptop running MacOS 10.4.7 (Upgraded from JaS 10.4.6).

 

It is a thrill having a Batter Meter back again! The only think I cannot do on this laptop is close the lid while is it running (locks up). This Symptom showed up after 10.4.6 (10.4.3 seemed okay as I vaguely rememember).

 

Anyways, Great job on this bundle! Battery Meter rocks.

 

GT

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I have a hp dv1520 and I didn't have a battery meter at all, in fact my sys profile didn't even show a battery installed. After I used this I now have a battery in sys profile and I can get the meter and percentages, but it just says calculating when I switch it to time.....In all honesty thats still a step up from not having it all...so thank you very much

 

Great work!

 

haven't tested dvd play but i used vlc anyways!

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Pretty sure I copied the PowerManagment.bundle over again after upgrading to 10.4.7, but the battery monitor isn't back, so I don't know if the driver needs updating or not.

 

*EDIT*

 

I re-downloaded the .bundle and applied it and the battery meter works now and so does the remaining power calculation.

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