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[Chris Bell <cbell.1967@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just moved to Ubuntu 10.10 and the kernel support for the switchable
graphics improves things substantially. I'm now able to switch between
graphics adapters, although I haven't been able to take advantage of my ATI
card's abilities yet (need to spend some time on that) and I can turn off
the ATI card now. My battery is very happy about that :).

Support isn't quite transparent yet but it is a lot better...

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've googled a bit, and it seems the newest ATI hybrid configurations are a
> problem for people. For example, installing the ATI binary drivers seems to
> be a problem:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1591280.html
>
> The vga_switcheroo code was first developed with ATI hybrid graphics in
> mind, but it's been a while, the situation may have changed hardware-wise
> lately...
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bell <cbell.1967@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I have basically the same laptop (HP with ATI card) and I get the same
>> results. VGA switcheroo fails and I can't generate a DSDT.dat - segmentation
>> fault.
>>
>> It looks like most of the focus has been on nVidea cards.
>>
>> HP doesn't (and won't) support a switch in the BIOS. The ATI card performs
>> very well under Windoze and should rock under Linux - if only it could work.
>> I'm happy to help if I can.
>>
>> ....Chris
>>
>> On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:50 AM, "Ing. Luis Manuel Garcés Socarrás"<
>> lmgarcess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Vga_switcheroo in not working for me either....
>> I got this...
>> lmgarcess@Drake:~$ sh ./switch_between_cards.sh
>> [: 120: :+:Pwr:: unexpected operator
>> [: 120: :+:Pwr:: unexpected operator
>> [: 120: :+:Pwr:: unexpected operator
>> [: 120: :+:Pwr:: unexpected operator
>> I the program detected both card and it said that Intel Card is power on
>> and ATI doesn't...
>> Could somebody helpme????
>> Cheers Luis
>>
>> El 26/11/10 11:13, Albert Vilella escribió:
>>
>> have you tried vga_switcheroo?
>>
>>  <http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/>
>> http://asusm51ta-with-linux.blogspot.com/
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, "Ing. Luis Manuel Garcés Socarrás" <<lmgarcess@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 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
>>>
>>
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