I am ccing [email protected] since this may be useful to people working on the vga_switcheroo code...
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Pascal Clémot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guillaume, > > I tried the same thing on my UL30VT running Fedora 13 with 2.6.35 RC6 kernel > (2.6.35-0.57.rc6.git1.fc14.x86_64). The nvidia card actually still appears > with lspci, > and there is no difference in power usage (using powertop for monitoring). > It seems like the card is not turned off when using switcheroo... > > I noticed another thing: when I disable the nvidia card using switcheroo, > and then > I turn my laptop to sleep using Fn+F1, the system hangs, the cpu fan speeds > up, > and all I'm able to do is turn it off manually with the power button. > > I'll continue to test vgaswitcheroo of newer kernel release, but I'll keep > the > nvidia_g210m_acpi module loaded the rest of the time :) > > > 2010/7/21 Guillaume Kulakowski <[email protected]> >> >> Hi, >> >> I have an Asus UL30Vt with Fedora 13 and 2.6.35 RC5 kernel (futur F14 >> kernel). >> >> I use vgaswitcheroo for disable my Nvidia card : >> >> > r...@zhukov /home/llaumgui> modprobe nouveau >> > r...@zhukov /home/llaumgui> mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug >> > r...@zhukov /home/llaumgui> cd /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo >> > r...@zhukov /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo> echo OFF > switch >> > r...@zhukov /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo> cat switch >> > 0:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0 >> > 1: :Off:0000:01:00.0 >> >> But, I think that my card is not realy power off : >> > r...@zhukov /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo> lspci | grep VGA >> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series >> > Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) >> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce >> > G210M] (rev a2) >> >> What do you think about it ? >> >> Thx >> -- >> Jabber/Gtalk : [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30 >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30 >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30 > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30 > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
