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Message #00638
Re: video_switch tool
Hello Michael!
Have you already tried the testoff.sh script?
If it works, you should see a much lower battery drain rate. You can
also look at your card in lspci, if Rev(xx) is changed to Rev(ff) the
card is off.
greetings
Alex
Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 16:12 +0100 schrieb Michael Eckert:
> Hello all together,
>
> I am new on this mailing lists and have a question (of course):
>
> This is defined on https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call:
>
> The status after a call can be read back from /proc/acpi/call:
> * 'not called' - nothing to report
> * 'Error: <description>' - the call failed
> * '0xNN' - the call succeeded, and returned an integer
> * '"..."' - the call succeeded, and returned a string
> * '{0xNN, ...}' - the call succeeded, and returned a buffer
>
> So my question is now, if I switch off/on the card and read from
> /proc/acpi/call, I see for the first time :"0x0/0x1/.
>
> If I read from it again, I get "not called" in every case.
>
> So is it now off/on or what is happening, maybe someone can fix this?
>
> I don't know if that is the function that handle it:
>
> static int acpi_proc_read(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
> int count, int *eof, void *data)
> {
> int len = 0;
>
> if (off > 0) {
> *eof = 1;
> return 0;
> }
>
> len = strlen(result_buffer);
> memcpy(page, result_buffer, len + 1);
> strcpy(result_buffer, "not called");
>
> return len;
> }
>
> Michael Eckert
>
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