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[matt welland <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure if you have already done these steps but if you wish to
turn off the nvidia chip you can follow the instructions here:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=157630

It works pretty well for me (batt life indicated goes from 3hrs to 5.30)
but you must turn the nvidia chip back on before shutting down or the
system will lock up.

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 00:38 +0000, Nuno Lourenco wrote:

> Antonio. As far as i know the best you can do is to use the IGP
> (internal/intel gpu) for graphics and disable nvidia GPU in order to
> save power...
> 
> 
> No dia 12 de Jan de 2011 22:54, "antonio bove"
> <bove.antonio2@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > good morning to all...
> > I'm sorry for my english, but I have a problem...
> > I've just bought an Asus 1215N, and I've immediately installed
> Ubuntu 10.10.
> > after the resolution about the issue with eth and wifi, the last
> problem is
> > Nvidia ION...
> > I tryed to use:
> > 
> > - a GUI for vgaswitcheroo: no result...!
> > - using peberlein git, the acpi_call module: no result! (using git
> > clone, no permanent modification in any kerne modules)
> > 
> > I'm quite sure that it's my fault, 'cause I'm a semi-newbie...
> > anyway: someone can help me???
> > according to the rules of group on Launchpad, this mail has
> attacched the
> > DSDT.dsl file
> > my laptop is 1215N x.x (from sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
> && sudo
> > dmidecode -s system-version)
> > mi GPU are:
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10
> Family
> > Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a001] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA
> > controller])
> > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device
> > [10de:0a76] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> > (from lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' |
> grep
> > VGA)
> > 
> > thanks for the attention, wait for your answer...!
> 
> 
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