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[Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía
<samsagax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alex: Noob question
>
> Could you please give some instructions on how can I test this? I have 2
> partitions available for testing on fresh installations. I'll be using
> Ubuntu (10.10 or 11.04) on a Vostro 3500 laptop, similar hardware as
> asus kj50 series (Intel i5 integrated graphics + nVidia 310M).
> And please can you instruct me on how i can report useful data on the
> results of these test? If not just the first part. I've tried acpi_call
> with a working method but with very unstable results to turn off Nvidia
> card.

I updated the tree, renaming install to install-fedora and adding an
ubuntu install target and uninstall targets for both.  Not much
testing on ubuntu, but the module loads and seems to do what it's
supposed to.  If you just want to see if it works without doing an
install, just 'make; modprobe -r nouveau; insmod ./asus-switcheroo.ko;
modprobe nouveau'.  It might be best to do this from a recovery shell
boot so X isn't running.  If you end up with a
/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch after that, it worked.  The
Dell may have similar hardware to the Asus, but the ACPI
implementation is really the key, so I'll be surprised if
asus-switcheroo loads, and more surprised if it works.  Thanks,

Alex