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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

The battery information is usually somewhere in your /proc/ directory:

find /proc/ -iname "bat*" 2>/dev/null

gives me:

/proc/acpi/battery
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            24420 mW
remaining capacity:      57150 mWh
present voltage:         15499 mV


On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Wepmaschda <wepmaschda@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yipeee! It's working!
>
> The single-space was the problem (terminal attached).
>
> It seems that it gave me some extra battery time although I recently
> found out, that my battery is broken and this is the main reason for
> low battery time. ;-)
>
> Can I somehow find out how much power (Watt) the laptop currently uses?
>
>
> Anyway - Thanks for the help and the good work! Keep it going - I look
> forward to see the new bumblebee release and maybe I will try out
> using the nvidia card in linux. ;-)
>
>
>
> 2012/1/7 Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> In addition, make sure that *no* driver is loaded before turning the card
>> off. Check it with
>> lspci -vmk -d10de:
>> If a driver is loaded, there is a "Driver: ..." line.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Huh, that was not what I expected. Could you re-run the commands, but then
>>> add sudo cat /proc/acpi/call after each sudo tee /proc/acpi/call command?
>>> Please
>>> attach dmesg as well and cat /proc/cmdline
>>>
>>> Try using one space as separator as well. When I tried multiple spaces
>>> between
>>> _DSM and the arguments, I got an "Method call failed: Error: AE_SUPPORT"
>>> error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lekensteyn
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/1/7 Wepmaschda <wepmaschda@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Since it seems that the test wasn't successful, I attached the whole
>>>> terminal output.
>>>>
>>>> I installed the bumblebee-git and apci_call-git AUR packages, added me
>>>> to group bumblebee, restarted the system and tried the commands you
>>>> told me.
>>>>
>>>> Is my system more complicated? ;-)
>>>>
>>>> 2012/1/5 Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> > I found the calls in the acpidump and could see on beforehand that it
>>>> > does
>>>> > not work for
>>>> > you since these kind of calls require additional treatment, namely
>>>> > saving
>>>> > and restoring
>>>> > the PCI configuration space.
>>>> >
>>>> > Please confirm (with PM disabled, but keep cardo{n,ff} scripts) that
>>>> > the
>>>> > following sequence
>>>> > does work (after making sure that you no acpi calls have been performed
>>>> > this
>>>> > session, i.e.
>>>> > by rebooting)
>>>> >
>>>> > # should not show FF FF FF ...
>>>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0
>>>> >
>>>> > cat /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 > saved.txt
>>>> > sudo tee /proc/acpi/call < /etc/bumblebee/cardoff
>>>> >
>>>> > # should show FF FF FF ...
>>>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0
>>>> > sudo tee /proc/acpi/call < /etc/bumblebee/cardon
>>>> >
>>>> > # should not show FF FF FF ...
>>>> > xxd -c4 /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0
>>>> > sudo tee /proc/bus/pci/01/00.0 < saved.txt
>>>> > optirun glxgears
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Please attach the output of the above commands.
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards,
>>>> > Lekensteyn
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Wepmaschda <wepmaschda@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 2012/1/4 Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> >> > Those ON and OFF lines are code that can be inserted in
>>>> >> > /etc/bumblebee/cardon
>>>> >> > and /etc/bumblebee/cardoff which needs Bumblebee. See
>>>> >> > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/ACPI-Removed for
>>>> >> > how
>>>> >> > to
>>>> >> > use those calls. Note that the card has to be on before suspending
>>>> >> > or
>>>> >> > the
>>>> >> > card
>>>> >> > won't be useable until the PCI configuration space is reinitialized.
>>>> >> > Sorry
>>>> >> > for the
>>>> >> > technical details, I just try to be complete.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'm not sure if I already understand it completely. ;-)
>>>> >> Did you find those calls out from the acpidump? Should they already
>>>> >> solve the problem?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I created the files cardon and cardoff with the one-lines but "sudo
>>>> >> make load" still doesn't work with the same error.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Also I started Windows7 and used the nvidia card before I booted back
>>>> >> into archlinux before I tested this. So the card should have been
>>>> >> "on".
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Should it already work or can I help with some more
>>>> >> information/testing?
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > I'll see if there is an automated way to detect this kind of methods
>>>> >> > and
>>>> >> > integrate
>>>> >> > it in bbswitch.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If I can help with my hardware, just tell me.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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