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[Daniel Hauck <daniel@xxxxxxxx>]

Please read though this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248837&highlight=M11x

In there you will learn that the implementation of optimus is rather 
different from the stuff we see in others. But someone made a customized 
version of the kernel hack that DOES turn off the nVidia GPU to reduce 
power draw. There is not yet a method that will enable the nvidia core 
for video output and lately there hasn't been any work on that as far as 
I can see. Your dream of playing games with high performance will need 
to wait until someone comes up with how this is done.

Also, in the thread, you will see my own contribution of adding 
automatic compile and installation of new kernel hack modules when new 
kernels are updated.


On 01/17/2011 01:48 PM, Marco Maso wrote:
> forwarding to the ML
>
> Inizio messsaggio inviato:
>
> Data: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:32:13 -0000
> Da: hfzorman<hfzorman@xxxxxxxxx>
> A: Marco Maso<demind@xxxxxxxxx>
> Oggetto: Log of an Alienware M11x R2 (Optimus powered-netbook)
>
>
> I have tried the instructions described in the "Resources" section just
> to help out here. I would love to stop using Windows to play games.
> Anyway, I got everything else fine but when I run the "turns off" script
> everything fails. Here is the information required in the initial page
> and the output I got when everything failed.
>
> 1. System information:
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~/acpi_call$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-
> name
> M11x R2
>
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~/acpi_call$ sudo dmidecode -s system-version
> A03
>
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~/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]: nVidia Corporation GT215
> [GeForce GT 335M] [10de:0caf] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>
> 2. Output following the "resources" section:
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~$ git clone
> http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/hfranqui/acpi_call/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 90, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (46/46), done.
> remote: Total 90 (delta 50), reused 77 (delta 42)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (90/90), done.
>
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~$ cd acpi_call
>
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~/acpi_call$ make
>
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-24-generic/build M=/home/hfranqui/acpi_call
> modules
> make[1]: se ingresa al directorio ��/usr/src/linux-
> headers-2.6.35-24-generic��
>    CC [M]  /home/hfranqui/acpi_call/acpi_call.o
>    Building modules, stage 2.
>    MODPOST 1 modules
>    CC      /home/hfranqui/acpi_call/acpi_call.mod.o
>    LD [M]  /home/hfranqui/acpi_call/acpi_call.ko
> make[1]: se sale del directorio ��/usr/src/linux-
> headers-2.6.35-24-generic��
>
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~/acpi_call$ sudo insmod acpi_call.ko
>
> hfranqui@hfranqui-M11x-R2:~/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.P0P3.PEGP._OFF: 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.P0P4.DGPU.DOFF: 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
>
> Hope this helps you in anyway. I would love to help as much as I can
> because I really want to use all the power of this notebook under
> Ubuntu.
> H��ctor