Any activity on this? The newly attached patch contains one difference with the previous<br>one: a dummy function has been added to avoid an error if ACPI is disabled.<br><br>Regards,<br>Lekensteyn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Lekensteyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lekensteyn@gmail.com">lekensteyn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> A quickly written way to test this module is described for Ubuntu at<br><a href="http://pastebin.com/c5XqKSsW" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/c5XqKSsW</a>. Basically, you need to apply the patch on nouveau<br>and rebuild the nouveau kernel module.<br> <br>A comparison of different methods that works for toggling the dGPU is available:<br><a href="https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Comparison-of-PM-methods" target="_blank">https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Comparison-of-PM-methods</a><br> <br>Regards,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Lekensteyn</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Gianluca Cecchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Lekensteyn <<a href="mailto:lekensteyn@gmail.com" target="_blank">lekensteyn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >>><br> >>> Hello guys,<br> >>><br> >>> I've prepared a patch based on my findings for the bbswitch module<br> >>> (<a href="https://github.com/Lekensteyn/acpi-stuff/tree/master/bbswitch" target="_blank">https://github.com/Lekensteyn/acpi-stuff/tree/master/bbswitch</a>). This<br> >>> adds a proper<br> >>> check whether a _DSM function is supported or not and make OFF / ON for<br> >>> vga_switcheroo work for nVidia Optimus models. The patch is based against<br> >>> the<br> >>> mainline kernel.<br> >>><br> >>> It has been tested on my Clevo B7130 laptop running kernel 3.2 which has<br> <br> </div>Hello,<br> I have an Asus U36SD laptop with Optimus and Fedora 16 with kernel<br> 3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64<br> Any way I can test it?<br> Currently 狢'm using acpi_call to switch off nvidia card and gain 4w<br> for more battery life.<br> <br> [g.cecchi@ope46 ~]$ lspci -vnnn|grep -i vga<br> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd<br> Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller<br> [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])<br> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device<br> [10de:1050] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)<br> <br> What benefit would it give me? Chance to use nvidia for graphic<br> related apps ? With nouveau andor nvidia proprietary driver?<br> Thanks in advance for any pointer<br> <span><font color="#888888"><br> Gianluca<br> </font></span><div><div>_______________________________________________<br> Nouveau mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>