Hi Matze, Two comments if I may, Because you did most of the work in this area together with Matthew Garrett, you are probably the best to ask: how feasible is it to have the nvidia card to switch on/off on a working linux session, not through a reboot? I still see this being a very interesting feature even if an xserver reboot is required... The second comment, according to Matthew's email a while ago, it seems like all nvidia hybrid graphics behave the same, so an nvidia generic control tool is probably useful. I keep an updated list of current systems with contributed DSDT dumps here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Hybrid_Graphics You can sort them by "graphics configuration" as this is for all 4 hybrid graphics configurations I've found so far: - Intel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel> graphics processor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit>with shared main memory + Nvidia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia> graphics card (e.g. Sony Vaio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAIO> Z-series) - Nvidia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia> processor with shared main memory + Nvidia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia> high-end processor (e.g. Acer Aspire 7530, also Macbook Pro<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook_Pro>late 2008/early 2009) - Intel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel> graphics processor with shared main memory + ATI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI> graphics card (e.g. Lenovo T400) - ATI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI> processor with shared main memory + ATI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI> high-end processor (e.g. MSI PX211) I hope it's useful for you or anybody else in the list, Cheers, Albert. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Matthias Welwarsky <ma...@welwarsky.de>wrote: > On Thursday 18 June 2009 11:06:15 Mario wrote: > > Matthias Welwarsky ha scritto: > > > On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:51:12 Mario wrote: > > >> I'm still using Eva's module but I'm just wondering if I still need it > > >> with kernel 2.6.30: what are the differences? I'm using the Intel > > >> graphics card. I guess sony module in 2.6.30 can't disable (for power > > >> saving) the nvidia card, but what about the rest? Multimedia keys? > > > > > > I think the rest should work. I'll have to download 2.6.30 kernel and > > > kompare the the module sources. Maybe it's time for a new release... > > > > If all the keys and rfkill stuff works well with the 2.6.30 kernel we > > could create a new module of utility that "try" to control the stuff > > related to the hybrid graphics system. Maybe the new nvidia-control does > > that... > > Indeed. But I think the new nvidia-control lacks a possibility to "force" a > state, something that e.g. Norbert now uses in his Intel/Nvidia switching > script. I could add it there, too, but that means I need to distribute two > modules instead of one. Then nvidia-control however has the advantage of > being > agnostic of laptop vendor, so it might work on other machines with > nvidia/intel hybrid graphics solution. > > > > > Mario > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> > Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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