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["Heliel Morales" <heliel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marco, thanks for your reply. There is a difference so I will try to pursue switching off NVIDIA. How did you manage to get only Intel running?

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Rofei <marco.rofei@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:38:30 
To: Heliel Morales<heliel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Asus-ul30] Power Usage

Il giorno sab, 16/10/2010 alle 10.28 -0400, Heliel Morales ha scritto:

> Hi Guys!
> 
> I'm a bit frustrated with video card 'switching' on my UL30VT. I'm
> aware we can't hot swap as it's done in Windows, but the solutions to
> activating one or the other I have seen so far are all over the place
> and I just can't make it work.
> 
> My current setup:
> - Ubuntu 10.10 (KDE is my environment of choice)
> - Running NVIDIA only (this was accomplished by installing the NVIDIA
> drivers and then changing the HDD settings to compatible in BIOS)
> 
> My first question:
> - Will I really see a significant drop in power usage if I had only
> Intel running? With just Firefox and terminal open powertop is
> reporting ~12W (swings between 10 and 14W). For those out there
> running on Intel, what's your power usage under these cirscumstances?
> It's hard for to me assess the battery life because I use the laptop
> on intervals and performing various tasks (I hope to be getting at
> least 6 hours of just browsing). If I won't get a decent battery life
> boost, I will just give up on trying to switch to Intel only (I really
> don't need to be running NVIDIA since I don't play any games or use
> the HDMI out). 
> 
>  I'm not new to Linux, but have never had these type of issues in the
> past so I don't know much about acpi. The instructions I have found on
> the web are not very clear. On a bright note, the upgrade to 10.10
> went better than I expected (only hibernate doesn't seem to be
> working, it hangs ... suspend works much quicker than 10.04). 
> 
>  Thanks a million. 
> Heliel


I have an ASUS UL80VT and, with only intel card, i got 7500~10000mW.
Battery life 7:30h~8:00h.

MR