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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to add more questions than answers but, will this new nvidia_control.c
code to switch off
the nvidia card with no reboot? Even if Xorg is still eons away from being
able to deal with
the hot switching, it would be great to have a hot hardware switch working
that could be
then coupled with an xserver restart, instead of a cold reboot.

Looking forward to it,

Cheers,

    Albert.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mario <mario.tux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Norbert Preining wrote:
> > When loading sony-laptop with speed_stamina=3 nothing is touched at the
> > graphics card side, so the other (not working) graphics card is not
> > actually turned off, means it takes much more energy.
> >
> > Fortunately Matthew has written a simple module
> >       nvidia_control
> > that turns off the nvidia graphic card.
>
> I'm not sure to understand the use of this new module: does it just
> switch off the nvidia card? In this case, I don't understand the
> difference with the old module (when used without parameters it disables
> the nvidia card).
> I guess it switches off the nvidia card only if the hardware button is
> switched in stamina mode. Is it correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Mario
>
>
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