Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

he temperature and misinterprets it as requiring a critical thermal shutdown. Lockups are certainly possible, and it's just about conceivable that you could cause hardware damage - though that's a bit of a stretch. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

access, so there's a risk of racing and trashing the contents of other registers. This should really be implemented as a kernel driver using either the hwmon or thermal interfaces and a generic fan control daemon implemented on top of that. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and software verification tool

ired. No permission is granted for distribution, only use. You're permitted to download it - you're not permitted to pass it on any further. It may well be their intent that it be redistributable, but this notice doesn't say so. Your best bet would be to contact the copyright holders and

Bug#284909: ITP: vbetool -- run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vbetool Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/ * License : GPL Description : run real-mode video BIOS code to alter ha

Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 24, 2004: > >> This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely >> to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. > > Oh never read of that,

Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal protocols

Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * URL : http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical/ The last version of this appears to have been released in 2002. Is there any sign of ongoing development, and is there any software that actually uses this library? -- Matthew Garrett

Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: ibm-acpi This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#268153: ITP: cfi-ru -- Copyright does not exist, book about hacker culture

Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * License : GPL2 Are you sure? This disagrees with the preface to the book. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#261413: ITP: utf8script -- binfmt_misc plugin for UTF-8 scripts

usion about what the byte order is. It's needed for UTF-16 (which is a fairly decent demonstration of why UTF-16 is a Bad Thing), but not UTF-8. There may be desirable to mark a file as being in UTF-8, but calling it a BOM is just wrong. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#251308: ITP: nstx -- Tunnel IP over DNS

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: nstx Version : 1.1-beta4 Upstream Author : Florian Heinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Julien Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nstx.dereference.de/nstx/ * License : GPL Description : Tunnel IP over DNS n

Bug#231269: ITP: vino -- VNC server for GNOME

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2004-02-05 Severity: wishlist * Package name: vino Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Mark McLoughlin * URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vino * License : GPL Description : VNC server for GNOME VNC is

Bug#175640: ITP: dasher -- Predictive text input software

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-07 Severity: wishlist * Package name: dasher Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : Dasher Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ * License : GPL Description : Predi