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Re: switch card on at boot

 

Hi Christine,

Do you have a GTX 555 or GT 555M? bbswitch was designed for laptops and
does AFAIK not work with desktop cards. Unless the load_state=1 option is
passed to bbswitch, loading the module does not turn the device on.

Peter

PS. interesting use of "dag" :)

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Christine Karman <christine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
> I can switch on my geforce gtx555 with bbswitch. Now I want to have it
> switched on at boot, so I can load the proper drivers at boot too. I added
> "bbswitch" to /etc/modules in my ubuntu 11.10, I added bbswitch.ko to
> /lib/modules/3.0.0-15-generic/**kernel/drivers/acpi/, and I did the sudo
> initramfs -u command. But the card stays off at reboot, there's no message
> in syslog, like I get when I type "make load".
>
> How do I turn on the card at boot properly? Thanks in advance.
>
> dagdag
> Christine
>
> --
> dagdag is just a two character rotation of byebye.
>
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