In addition, make sure that *no* driver is loaded before turning the card
off. Check it with
lspci -vmk -d10de:
If a driver is loaded, there is a "Driver: ..." line.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Lekensteyn <lekenst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Huh, that was not what I expected. Could you re-run the commands, but then
> add sudo cat /proc/acpi/call after each sudo tee /proc/acpi/call command?
> Please
> attach dmesg as well and cat /proc/cmdline
>
> Try using one space as separator as well. When I tried multiple spaces
> between
> _DSM and the arguments, I got an "Method call failed: Error: AE_SUPPORT"
> error.
>
> Thanks,
> Lekensteyn
>
>
> 2012/1/7 Wepmaschda <wepmasc...@gmx.net>
>
>> Since it seems that the test wasn't successful, I attached the whole
>> terminal output.
>>
>> I installed the bumblebee-git and apci_call-git AUR packages, added me
>> to group bumblebee, restarted the system and tried the commands you
>> told me.
>>
>> Is my system more complicated? ;-)
>>
>> 2012/1/5 Lekensteyn <lekenst...@gmail.com>:
>> > I found the calls in the acpidump and could see on beforehand that it
>> does
>> > not work for
>> > you since these kind of calls require additional treatment, namely
>> saving
>> > and restoring
>> > the PCI configuration space.
>> >
>> > Please confirm (with PM disabled, but keep cardo{n,ff} scripts) that the
>> > following sequence
>> > does work (after making sure that you no acpi calls have been performed
>> this
>> > session, i.e.
>> > by rebooting)
>> >
>> > # should not show FF FF FF ...
>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0
>> >
>> > cat /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 > saved.txt
>> > sudo tee /proc/acpi/call < /etc/bumblebee/cardoff
>> >
>> > # should show FF FF FF ...
>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0
>> > sudo tee /proc/acpi/call < /etc/bumblebee/cardon
>> >
>> > # should not show FF FF FF ...
>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0
>> > sudo tee /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 < saved.txt
>> > optirun glxgears
>> >
>> >
>> > Please attach the output of the above commands.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Lekensteyn
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Wepmaschda <wepmasc...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 2012/1/4 Lekensteyn <lekenst...@gmail.com>:
>> >> > Those ON and OFF lines are code that can be inserted in
>> >> > /etc/bumblebee/cardon
>> >> > and /etc/bumblebee/cardoff which needs Bumblebee. See
>> >> > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/ACPI-Removedfor how
>> >> > to
>> >> > use those calls. Note that the card has to be on before suspending or
>> >> > the
>> >> > card
>> >> > won't be useable until the PCI configuration space is reinitialized.
>> >> > Sorry
>> >> > for the
>> >> > technical details, I just try to be complete.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure if I already understand it completely. ;-)
>> >> Did you find those calls out from the acpidump? Should they already
>> >> solve the problem?
>> >>
>> >> I created the files cardon and cardoff with the one-lines but "sudo
>> >> make load" still doesn't work with the same error.
>> >>
>> >> Also I started Windows7 and used the nvidia card before I booted back
>> >> into archlinux before I tested this. So the card should have been
>> >> "on".
>> >>
>> >> Should it already work or can I help with some more
>> information/testing?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > I'll see if there is an automated way to detect this kind of methods
>> and
>> >> > integrate
>> >> > it in bbswitch.
>> >>
>> >> If I can help with my hardware, just tell me.
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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