Yet another update:
I’ve switched to jupiter instead of eee-control and it works flawlessly.
You can get it from sourceforge
UPDATE: This should also work for Maverick Meerkat – Ubuntu 10.10
If you are among the people who are trying out the new Lucid Lynx beta of Ubuntu, and are using an eee-pc, you might be having problems with getting the eee-control applet to work. eee-control is a application that allows you to clock the processor, disable the eee-pc specific devices etc.
The problem with Lucid is apparently the provided kernel can’t load the eeepc_laptop module, and therefor eee-control-daemon can’t be started. The solution is somewhat simple. You’ll have to add a boot option to the kernel, by adding a entry to grub.
With you favorite editor, open up the file:
/etc/default/grub
In the start of the files there is a list of boot options, and you’ll wanna add a entry looking like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"
When you’re done editing the file, update grub with the following command:
sudo update-grub
and then reboot. Now the eepc_laptop module should load fine, and eee-control-daemon will hopefully start automatically.