I’ve been fighting this annoying cold which finally seems to have cleared up today. Anyway, I had a new set of symptoms each day. How can this happen:
Day 1 – really sore throat, no other symptoms
Day 2 – runny nose and fever, no other symptoms
Day 3 – headache and cough, no other symptoms

Here is a bash script for acpi that underclocks the ati radeon 9700 on my laptop. Make sure to add an ac_adapter acpi event that calls the script:

#!/bin/bash

displaynum=0
user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum " | awk '{print $1}'`
echo $user
status=`acpi -a | grep on-line`
#echo $status
if [ "$status" ]
then
su $user -c "aticonfig --set-powerstate=3"
else
su $user -c "aticonfig --set-powerstate=1"
fi