Sorry, correct link is as follows (but you've probably seen the page anyway): http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/
The nvidia-packaged nvidia-settings has the exact same output, as you expected (also when querying GPUCurrentPerfLevel and GPUCurrentClockFreqs). I was surprised earlier to find "nvidia-settings -q GPUPowerSource -t" did list the computer as being on battery power. This was after resuming from standby on battery power. After plugging it back in to a power source, it didn't immediately say the laptop had changed to AC power, but coming back perhaps half an hour later it did, so it appears it *is* detecting changes in power source, but not for several minutes at least (when tested on openSUSE it was immediate). I have also noticed KDE's battery meter is often completely wrong, but that's probably totally unrelated. /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online changes immediately in response to disconnecting/connecting the power supply, as well as the tp_smapi interface. Cheers, Diggory On 6 June 2011 19:55, Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-06-06 16:16, Diggory Hardy wrote: > > Package: nvidia-glx > > Version: 270.41.19-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > I have set up nvidia's PowerMizer to use different profiles on mains > > and battery power as documented at > > http://tutanhamon.com.a/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/ , however > incorrect URL > > > according to nvidia-settings the laptop is always on mains power, even > > when it's actually running off the battery: > > > >> $ nvidia-settings -q GPUPowerSource -t > >> 0 > > I get the same result on my laptop using 270.41.06 driver and several > versions of nvidia-settings. But I never looked at this before, so I > can't say whether this was working with older releases. > Eventually a driver problem. > > > I noticed that OpenSUSE running on the same laptop detects the power > > source correctly, so might this have something to do withpackaging? > > I don't think so. But as the nvidia-settings package is built from free > source code, you might want to try the binary built by nvidia. Download > the driver *.run file from > ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/ to a temporary directory > and run it with the --extract-only command line option so that it does > not start the installer. The nvidia-settings binary can be found in the > root of the tree that is being extracted. Switch to that directory and run > ./nvidia-settings -q GPUPowerSource -t > > > Looks like I have 260.19.44 installed on openSUSE and 270.41.19 on > > this debian system. > > Downgrading to 260.xx does not work due to missing support for Xorg > 1.10, but eventually you could try the newer driver from experimental > (275.xx) and see if this was fixed. > > A quick search in the NVIDIA forum found the following threads: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=133555 > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=136245 > > > Andreas >
