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[Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 10:14 +0000, Nuno Lourenco wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> It is simple as this. You don't.... Until now, as far I know, there is
> no way to use the Nvidia GPU on 1215n (or any other similar Optimus
> platform) on anything else but Windows 7.
> 
> Other thing, as far as I noticed you are reading badly
> the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state, if you see it well, you are
> "charging" the laptop, the increase of mA that you see is actually the
> "charging rate", if it increased that means that is working Ok :)
> Because it is waisting less energy so it is able to charge quicker,
> got it? :)

Perhaps it should be stated somewhere more obviously (maybe in big
letters? :) that Optimus doesn't work. Maybe something like this:

"Optimus does not work on Linux (yet). Meanwhile, you can save the
battery by using acpi_call to turn your (unused) discrete GPU off."