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[Martin Juhl <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.. 

But this still only gives the possibility to disable the nvidia card.. so still no go on using the Nvidia card I guess... 




Fra: "Albert Vilella" <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> 
Til: "Martin Juhl" <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: "Andrew Murray" <amurray@xxxxxxxxxxx>, hybrid-graphics-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sendt: torsdag, 28. april 2011 10:35:51 
Emne: Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Wiki 

The alienware m11x r2 models have a different switching procedure: 

git clone http://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call.git 
cd acpi_call 
make 
sudo insmod acpi_call.ko 
./m11xr2.sh 

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Martin Juhl <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> I have tried using the script and the asus-module on my Alienware M11X R2... 
> 
> There doesn't seems to be a mux in this computer, anything I can do??? 
> 
> martin@falcon ~ $ query_dsdt -d . -tokens VGA:EGP:OFF:ON | sort -nk1 
> 04 DSDT.dsl { EGP => 12 OFF => 1 ON => 16 VGA => 2 } 
> 
> martin@falcon ~ $ query_dsdt -d . 
> 03 DSDT.dsl { 0xA4, 0x24, 0x8D, 0x10, 0x08, 0x9D, 0x16, 0x53 => 1 
> 0xA6, 0xFA, 0xDD, 0x3D, 0x1B, 0x36, 0xB4, 0x4E => 1 _DSM => 19 } 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________ 
> Fra: "Andrew Murray" <amurray@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Til: "Albert Vilella" <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> 
> Cc: hybrid-graphics-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Sendt: onsdag, 27. april 2011 17:00:07 
> Emne: Re: [Hybrid-graphics-linux] Wiki 
> 
> Hi Albert, 
> 
> I ran your script on my DSL file and got the following results: 
> 
> amurray@summer:~/acpi_call$ perl query_dsdt.pl -d ./ -tokens VGA:EGP:OFF:ON 
> 03 DSDT.dsl { EGP => 7 ON => 24 VGA => 2 } 
> amurray@summer:~/acpi_call$ perl ./query_dsdt.pl -d ./ 
> 01 DSDT.dsl { _DSM => 6 } 
> amurray@summer:~/acpi_call$ 
> 
> How do I use this information with acpi_call to switch my graphics 
> card - or is it not that simple? Documentation on the process from 
> taking a DSL file to doing something useful would be useful. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Andrew Murray 
> 
> On 27 April 2011 15:31, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>> The DSDT.dsl files are all in this bug report: 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/lpbugreporter/+bug/752542 
>> 
>> I wrote a small perl script to look for tokens in all the dsls: 
>> 
>> https://github.com/avilella/acpi_call/blob/master/query_dsdt.pl 
>> 
>> perl query_dsdt.pl -d ./alldsdts/ | sort -nk1 | less 
>> # or: 
>> perl query_dsdt.pl -d ./alldsdts/ -tokens VGA:EGP:OFF:ON | sort -nk1 | 
>> less 
>> 
>> But what would be cool is an ACPI syntax parser to compare all the dsl 
>> files to fish out more complicated cases, like the Alienware _PS3 
>> calls with parameters which could be buried with different method 
>> names in other models. 
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Andrew Murray <amurray@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote: 
>>> As a user with an unsupported configuration (see earlier post) - I 
>>> would find it useful to see a table of current support and progress. 
>>> 
>>> I understand the community wish for 100% support - to aid this a table 
>>> showing various configurations (e.g. a Dell Vostro 3750 laptop) and 
>>> the status of support for that - such as 'in progress','no active 
>>> development', etc. 
>>> 
>>> Users with unsupported hardware (like me) can update the table (which 
>>> will indicate to this community devices where support is wanted) along 
>>> with any other information such as links to DSL files etc. This way it 
>>> can also act like a TODO list and can be prioritised by number of 
>>> 'bumps' for each configuration. 
>>> 
>>> Users could also use this table to indicate that there are willing to 
>>> help in any testing efforts. 
>>> 
>>> Andrew Murray 
>>> 
>>> On 27 April 2011 14:23, Alessandro Accardo <julius8774@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>>>> It would be nice to have even a per-distro guide on the wiki, so a 
>>>> non-expert user can make his work for himself and we should have a less 
>>>> painful mailing list. :-P 
>>>> 
>>>> 2011/4/27 Fra B <frab1215@xxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> this is a good idea 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tyler Wagler <tyler.wagler@xxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>> wrote: 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If everyone thinks it would be beneficial, I can start to put together 
>>>>>> a 
>>>>>> Wiki of devices with working methods for each. Other ideas, 
>>>>>> suggestions? 
>>>>>> 
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