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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

have you tried vga_switcheroo?

http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, "Ing. Luis Manuel Garcés Socarrás" <
lmgarcess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi...
> I have a Laptop HP Pavalion Dv6-3031ss, it have an ATI Radeon HD 5470 and
> an Intel HD.... by default, when Linux start the active card is the Intel
> HD, I don't know if the ATI is powered or not. I use Kubuntu Maverick 10.10
> as OS. My first problem is that to slow and that is for the Video Card
> because KDE use a lot of video features. So I need to turn off my Intel Card
> and work with the ATI card....
> Here are the results of my tests...
>
> lmgarcess@Drake:~$ sudo acpidump > acpidump.txt && sudo acpixtract
> acpidump.txt && iasl -d DSDT.dat && ls -l DSDT.dsl
> Acpi table [DSDT] - 61269 bytes written to DSDT.dat
> Acpi table [SSDT] - 2545 bytes written to SSDT1.dat
> Acpi table [SSDT] - 6726 bytes written to SSDT2.dat
>
> Intel ACPI Component Architecture
> AML Disassembler version 20090521 [Jun 30 2009]
> Copyright (C) 2000 - 2009 Intel Corporation
> Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a
>
> Loading Acpi table from file DSDT.dat
> Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
> Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
> Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]
> Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
> ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................<
> wbr>...........................................................................................................................................................................................................
> Parsing completed
>
> Found 8 external control methods, reparsing with new information
> *Fallo de segmentación*
>
> lmgarcess@Drake:~/acpi_call$ sudo insmod acpi_call.ko
> lmgarcess@Drake:~/acpi_call$ ./test_off.sh
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P1.VGA._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.VGA._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB_.PCI0.OVGA.ATPX: failed
> Trying \_SB_.PCI0.OVGA.XTPX: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.PEGP._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P1.PEGP._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.MXR0.MXM0._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.PEG1.GFX0._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.PEG1.GFX0.DOFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.XVR0.Z01I.DGOF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.PEGR.GFX0._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.PEG.VID._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.DGPU._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU.DGOF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.RP00.VGA._PS3: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.RP00.VGA.P3MO: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.GFX0.DSM._T_0: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.LPC.EC.PUBS._OFF: failed
> Trying \_SB.PCI0.P0P2.NVID._OFF: failed
>
> lmgarcess@Drake:~/acpi_call$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
> *HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC*
>
> lmgarcess@Drake:~/acpi_call$ sudo dmidecode -s system-version
> 049E100000243110000020000
>
> lmgarcess@Drake:~/acpi_call$ lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if
> /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
> *00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core
> Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00
> [VGA controller])*
> *01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
> [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:68e0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> *
>
> I really need a solution because I don't want to use Windows any more... I
> have been using Linux since 2007 but just like a normal user. I tried to
> recompile Linux kernel but it doesn't work either...
> Please I need to figure out how to solve this as soon as posible...
> Figure out that on the instruction iasl -d DSDT.dat I had a Segmentation
> Failed....
> Cheer and hopping to heard from you soon...
> Luis
>