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[Wepmaschda <wepmaschda@xxxxxxx>]

Not on mine. ;-)

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

returns nothing and /proc/acpi/ only contains button, call and wakeup.



2012/1/7 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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