laptop-mode-tools deprecated?

[jsfarinet]

Doing a lot of research about powermanagement due to the problems with my samsung 535-u3c i found several sites which point out, that laptop-mode-tools are deprecated. I also encountered this when i tried to install tlp (which during install procedure says it might conflict with deprecated laptop-mode-tools).

So, my question: is this correct? Could/should i get rid of laptop-mode-tools (frankly they seem to not have really nicely worked on my machine (1))?

TIA

1) I got the warning:

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Warning: Configuration /etc/laptop-mode.conf.d/board-specific/*.conf ist not readable.
Skipping.
Laptop mode
enabled, not active
    OK

even though there is no /etc/laptop-mode.conf.d but only /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/ . . . (?)

[gapan]

I don't think they are deprecated.

Not sure about this, but try creating a symlink from /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d which you already have to /etc/laptop-mode.conf.d which you don't.

[jsfarinet]

Thanks for the tip!

From what i read, seems pm-utils take over what laptop-mode-tools do. Cfr. https://answers.launchpad.net/samsung-t ... ion/151770. I trust that guy, since his samsung tools (when i still used debian on this machine) did some good work. Btw, would it be possible to install it into slackware?

[gapan]

I haven't tried it, but seems like you can simply get the tarball, extract it and then

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sudo make install

note the dependencies he lists:

Dependencies:
- pm-utils
- dbus-python
- pygtk
- python-notify
- rfkill
- xbindkeys
- vbetool