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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ooh, I forgot to mention. To activate the module, you need to do:

sudo modprobe asus_nvidia

Then use these commands to try and see the battery life improvement:

lspci | grep VGA
sudo powertop  # with the laptop running on battery, not AC plugged

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:53 PM, John <johnmcudd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Albert,
>
> Yes I've tried the switchable graphics button and nothing seems to
> happen. The display doesn't change in anyway or flicker or anything like
> it does in windows when I press the button. Should I see some sort of
> change when I type "lspci | grep -i VGA"?
>
> With a fully charged battery I'm seeing a estimate of about 6 hours and
> 15 minutes when I first start the computer up and networking disabled.
>
> When I press the graphics switch button and wait a good minute nothing
> happens. I only see a slight improvement in the battery estimate. (6
> hours 30 minutes) but I think that might be because the battery
> estimating algorithm takes a while to average the battery drain rate and
> becomes more accurate over time.
>
> Is there a terminal command that will tell me what hardware is running,
> or perhaps some sort of hardware utility? I think lspci just lists the
> hardware and not the actual status of each component.
>
> I generated a xorg.conf file last night since xorg no longer generates
> one by default. I'm running the intel driver. Does the module switch
> xorg stuff or does it simply turn the nvidia hardware on and off? Note
> that I do not have the binary nvidia driver enabled.
>
> More information about the function of the module would be helpful.
> Maybe there is documentation in the source.
>
> Thanks so much for the help Albert.
>
> John Cudd
> john@xxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 10:20 +0000, Albert Vilella wrote:
>> ccing to the list. Have you tried the switchable graphics button now
>> that the module is installed?
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:36 AM, John <johnmcudd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hey Everyone,
>> >
>> > I just installed this on a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 on my UL80vt-a1.
>> > My question is, what do I do next to see if it worked? And should I
>> > install the proprietary driver for Nvidia? I know that before, at least
>> > without this new module, my xorg would crap out if I enabled the
>> > proprietary driver.
>> >
>> > In short, how do I test to see if this module works and should I install
>> > the recommended proprietary driver for nvidia?
>> >
>> > Thanks so much for all the hard work. I just got this laptop yesterday
>> > only to find out the hybrid graphics screws everything up on Ubuntu.
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > John Cudd
>> > john@xxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 22:00 +0000, Albert Vilella wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> A new, now working package has been produced to install the
>> >> asus_nvidia module here:
>> >>
>> >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38458054/nvidia-g210m-acpi-source_0.1.0-1%7Eppa-karmic_all.deb
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Albert.
>> >>
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