On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Lampshade <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I was trying half year ago to use OpenBSD 5.5, but system heated my > laptop. I have Intel and Nvidia GPU in laptop. I can not disable Nvidia GPU > via BIOS. Laptop always exposes and enables two GPUs by default. OpenBSD > does not disabled Nvidia GPU, so it heated laptop. I have tried OpenBSD 5.6 > and it still heats my laptop. On Linux Nvidia's GPU is disabled > automatically. I wanted to find how to disable my card manually, I used > acpi_call Linux module (on Linux of course). In my laptop script > turn_off_gpu.sh is disabling GPU when I strip methods variable to: > > methods=" > \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF" > > and enables when: > methods=" > \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._ON" > > Is there any way in OpenBSD to send first (disabling) command to hardware? > It is the only reason I don't use OpenBSD. Maybe somebody can write few > lines of code and I will compile kernel for myself? > > References: > http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/2010/07/u ⦠ch-onoff.html > https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call > > acpi_call support would be awesome! Another use case for it is setting minimum and maximum battery charge levels for thinkpads newer than xx30 line.
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