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[Wepmaschda <wepmaschda@xxxxxxx>]

It's only the dmesg log you requested, right? (attached)

and cmdline:
# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=/dev/mapper/vg--papaya-testing--root ro quiet splash
i915.modeset=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/5becbcaa-8efc-4f4f-ba9d-47da4338d1fe

Any other logs?


2012/1/7 Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The battery information is obviously only existent if there is a battery
> plugged into
> it. Power usage is only available if the laptop is running on battery.
> If /proc/acpi/battery does not exist, have a look at
> /sys/class/power_supply/...
>
> Also, can you still post all logs I've requested? It helps me in verifying
> behavior.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Wepmaschda <wepmaschda@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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