Linux users of Sony Z1 series

[Stuart Shelton <>]

Hi guys,

As announced at http://www.sony-tools.homeunix.net/news.html I've just 
made the 1.4 revision of SonyXOSD available from 
http://files.sony-tools.homeunix.net/sony/sonyxosd.pl

The major changes are:

* Added support for changing to arbitrary CPUfreq governors, and
  implemented "ondemand" support for Linux 2.6.9 and above - reduce your
  processor speed below the lowest setting to enable this automatic
  processor frequency mode
  (And try a "watch -n 0.2 cat \
   /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq" to see the effect)
* The X On-Screen Displays are now split up by default, with much more
  descriptive labeling
* Console Tagging now works! Swap between X and a VT with a single
  keypress, rather than with CTRL+ALT+iforgotwhichconsoleiwasusing :)
* For ease of localisation, all strings displayed to the user are now
  defined in the User Variables section.
* I seem to have got to the bottom of the problems that caused sonyxosd to
  abort
* The ACPI code is now much cleaner

This update is recommended for everyone, especially those using pre-1.3 
versions.

Installation details are available at 
http://www.sony-tools.homeunix.net/sony.html#sonyxosd
You will also need libxosd, and the X11, X::Osd, Term::Size and 
Term::ANSIScreen Perl modules.  The best way to install these is via CPAN 
- the man page is your friend here.

... and yes, one of these days I will get around to writing a nice 
installer script.

As always comments/bug reports/flames all welcome!

Cheers,

    Stuart