It's been a while since I posted on of these..... so now I have a couple of laptops with the older HD 4200 series cards I wanted to control the power profiles and came across this blog with a systemd service, tirdc: Setting the power_profile for your Radeon graphics card using systemd So I packaged up the script and systemd service and added an openSUSE /etc/sysconfig file to set the profile. By default its set to low but can be set to low, high, default and auto as required. ...
While following this thread; Ubuntu was really bad a user commented that ettercap wasn't build for 11.4. So looking on OBS user bastianfriedrich had packaged it up, however was failing to build. After branching the package the spec file was way out of date so using spec-cleaner and spec2changes a general tidy up was done, however it was still failing to build, so had to add some additional patches but was stuck on "Statement might be overflowing a buffer in strncat" error. ...