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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for confirming it works.

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:50 AM, John <johnmcudd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Albert,
>
> sudo modprobe nvidia_g210m_acpi seemed to work. I'm getting a better
> battery life now, at just over 7 hours. The lspci | grep VGA command
> still lists the nvidia card but in the parenthesizes it changes from
> (rev a2) to (rev ff). I assume that must signify "off" since there is an
> improvement in the battery life.
>
> The actual graphics switch button does not seem to do anything. But I
> will go ahead and add the modprobe command into my startup apps. Maybe
> I'll get around to writing a little bash script or something to only
> execute the command when the computer is running on battery. Thanks so
> much.
>
> Now I guess I should work on tweaking my screen brightness, CPU scaling,
> etc. to increase the battery life even further.
>
> John Cudd
> john@xxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 20:01 +0000, Albert Vilella wrote:
>> You should see the nvidia line disappearing in the lspci | grep VGA.
>> This means it's not working.
>>
>> Can I ask you to open a new bug with this command?
>>
>> apport-bug linux-image-generic
>>
>> and cc the bug URL to the Launchpad team mailing list, thanks!
>>
>> 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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